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Anxiety

Anxiety is the top ailment of the modern world—worry before a meeting, a sense of dread when answering the phone, or even a pervasive, hard-to-pin-down fear. Start conquering anxiety with these practices from S&H.

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The Surprising Connection Between Sitting and Anxiety

Understanding the link between sedentary behavior and anxiety can help us come up with strategies for lifestyle changes.

Four Keys to Unlock the Wisdom of Anxiety

I wouldn’t have expected the ER doctor to say, “Welcome, you’ve just entered your dark night of the soul.” But if he had sent me on my way with information about what was happening, it would have been easier for me to arrive at the why.

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Help Your Mind Avoid Distractions

Our ability to stay with one topic is constantly in jeopardy, sometimes due to factors that we can control and sometimes to those we cannot.

Spirituality and Anxiety

Anxious? Approaching the problem with self-compassion and mindfulness may help. Discover more about spirituality and anxiety.

CBD for Anxiety

How can CBD help you with anxiety, and is it safe?

Book Review: Anxiety

The Missing Stage of Grief

When Anxiety Spirals and Mindfulness Isn’t Enough

The world doesn’t stop being confusing and cruel just because we decide to think positively. When anxiety has you gripping the sheets, ask yourself these questions to redirect.

Giving Voice to Anxiety and Acceptance

Having a hard time meditating because of anxious thoughts? Try saying your worries out loud.

Hypnotherapy for Anxiety Relief

Anxious? Have you tried hypnotism? Hypnotherapist David R. Wright uses hypnotherapy for anxiety relief by tapping into the subconscious and diminishing anxious triggers.

The Anxiety of Belief

Explore Rabbi Rami’s thoughts on how unconscious beliefs can produce anxiety, inspired by a recent podcast interview with a clinical psychologist and anxiety expert.

Mastering Creative Anxiety

24 Lessons for Writers, Painters, Musicians and Actors from America's Foremost Creativity Coach By Eric Maisel “Anxiety is part of the human condition,” says Eric Maisel. And it’…

Breathwork for Anxiety

Breathwork is an active form of meditation in which you manipulate your breath to change the way you feel.

6 Habits to Help Navigate Anxiety

“While we can’t eliminate our anxiety, we can navigate it. We can diminish its power—and live fulfilling lives anyway.”

7 Essential Oils for Anxiety

Calming essential oils for anxiety can soothe racing thoughts, overall stress, tight muscles, and panic attacks.

Embracing All Emotions: An Empath Pioneer Shows You How

We talk to Karla McLaren about what we can learn from our anger, how to approach anxiety, why positive emotions aren't always positive, and more.

My Two-Word Response to Daily Anxiety

Do you have daily anxiety? Welcome to being human. “... It would be great, because anxiety is a part of every day, if laughter could be too.”

Easing Anxiety With Kava

New research indicates this South Pacific root—an ancient tonic for relaxation—can help calm frayed nerves.

The Fear & Anxiety Solution

By Friedemann SchaubIf the anxious mind is a spiraling whirlpool of what-ifs and self-doubt, then The Fear & Anxiety Solution is an anchor that helps keep the spirit moored. Au…

4 Journaling Prompts for Anxiety

Journaling prompts for anxiety help you observe and process what’s happening without assigning emotion to it, which in turn prevents a buildup of anxiety.

9 Ways to Reduce Anxiety Right Here, Right Now

There are many tools and techniques you can use to manage and eliminate anxiety and worry effectively. Here, experts share healthy ways to cope with and reduce anxiety right here, right now in this moment.

What Role Does Your Anxiety Play?

Overwhelmed by anxiety? Learn skillful ways to address the specific role anxiety plays in your life.

Finding Refuge From Anxiety

One author offers her thoughts on taking a 5-week, $500 vacation from anxiety.

3 Soothing Crystals for Anxiety

Work with healing crystals for anxiety and tap into their power for relaxation, protection, and self-love.

A Surprising Perk of Anxiety

Reasonable levels of anxiety boost the memory, a new study shows.

The Power of Being With Anxiety

A path to keep anxiety from controlling your life.

The Anxiety of Intuition

Is intuition a useful tool or will it lead you astray? Julie Peters weighs the answers.

Anxiety Toolkit: Naming Your Anxiety and Sending It a Message

Wrapping your arms around anxiety is about speaking directly and compassionately to your anxiety.

Colored Light Therapy for Anxiety

Explore how green, pink, blue, and purple lights can reduce anxiety, improve mood, and more.

How Your Brain Processes Anxiety

For every outward symptom you can see from anxiety, there are even more complex processes happening inside your brain.

Affirmations for Overcoming Pregnancy Anxiety

17 affirmations for expectant mamas and those who want to uplift them.

The Latest on Herbs for Anxiety

Our lead digital editor reports on one master herbalist's suggestions for our current age of anxiety.

How Ayurveda Can Help Soothe Anxiety

Those of us struggling with anxiety might find healing in Ayurvedic practices like shirodhara and Sama Vritti pranayama.

Can Probiotics Ease Your Anxiety?

Feeling anxious? Eat some sauerkraut. Foods that are rich in probiotics might have a calming effect.

Book Review: The Wisdom of Anxiety

"Though commonly labeled a disorder, anxiety, for Paul, is simply evidence of the imagination and an invitation to wholeness. She shares tools and mindsets that allow us to approach anxiety with curiosity instead of shame, so that we may decode its messages, wherever they surface."

6 Ways to Deal With Nighttime Anxiety

Vanquish middle-of-the-night stress with these six tips for better sleep.

The Sweet Smell of De-Stress: How to Use Lavender for Anxiety

In scents, oils, and creams it’s a resounding “yes!” for lavender as a safe and effective anxiety reliever. Interest in its benefits as an oral supplement is also growing fast.

Video: A Daily Yoga Practice for Detoxing Anxiety

In this video, Sherianna Boyle, author of Emotional Detox for Anxiety, shows us how to dedicate the energy of a simple, daily yoga practice to the detoxing of anxiety and all the reactivity surrounding it.

Leave Anxiety on the Plate

Uma Naidoo, author of This Is Your Brain on Food, explores how the foods we eat may be driving up our anxiety.

Natural Approaches for Alleviating Anxiety and Panic

Familiar with debilitating anxiety? Find natural relief.

Boost Your Optimism for Less Anxiety

A new study links optimism and less anxiety with an area in the brain called the Orbitofrontal cortex.

A Goddess Ritual for Soothing Anxiety

Experiencing anxiety? Find serenity and alleviate stress by performing a ritual to Lakshmi.

5 Ways to Manage Anxiety Using Dance and Movement

Moving can dislodge anxiety from the body. Discover movement practices for anxiety.

How to Practice Color Meditation for Anxiety

Painting with watercolors channels the healing powers of both water and color.

How to Cope With Eco-Anxiety

Feeling the burden of climate change on an emotional level? Here are some skillful ways to manage eco-anxiety.

Soothing Anxiety by Balancing the Solar Plexus Chakra

The solar plexus chakra is key when it comes to anxiety. Discover how to bring balance to this chakra.

Three Tools for Managing Social Anxiety

When you are feeling stressed and anxious, what’s your strategy? If you’re like many of us, you head home to hide under your covers. What if I told you the cure was at the cocktail…

5 New Ways to Fight Anxiety

Five novel ways to tamp down daily anxiety.

“I Just Want a Happy Life Without This Constant Anxiety”

Many of us live with persistent anxiety. If our doctor recommends stepping away from medicine, what are some ways to cope without medicine?

Your Anxiety Isn’t All in Your Head

Ellen Vora, MD, is a psychiatrist, a yoga instructor, an acupuncturist, and a witch—and she’s on a mission to radically change the way we approach mental illness.

5 Ways to Deal with Body Anxiety

For those of us who experience body anxiety, normal tasks and experiences can feel insurmountable. Try these five tips to reclaim your relationship to your physical form.

How To Break Free From Parental Anxiety

Learn how to move away from anxiety about raising children, and into a place of balance and ease.

Meditation Medication: Grounding for Anxiety or Overwhelm

The first in three-part meditation series inspired by Ayurveda.

3 Ayurvedic Herbs to Calm Autumn Anxiety

When Vata mobilizes in dry, windy autumn, it accumulates in the nervous system and can bring anxiety. Discover Ayurvedic herbs to fight anxiety this season.

Schedule Your Worry Time: Simple Postponement Steps to Reduce Anxiety

Studies show that picking a time and a place to fret reduces anxiety. Try this postponement exercise to manage your worry time.

Can Healing Schools Heal Depression and Anxiety?

One author learned much on her search for something to ease her mind.

Dealing with COVID-19: 5 Ways to Control Coronavirus Anxiety

Is coronavirus news ramping up your anxiety? Does the thought of social distancing make you fret? Try these five strategies to help you cope.

4 Nutrition Tips to Help Manage Your Anxiety

For anxiety management, try putting on your nutrition armor of adequacy, consistency, balance, and permission to enjoy food.

Yin Yoga for Fear, Anxiety, and Confusion

Use yin yoga to target the channels of energy that fear, anxiety, and confusion flow through. Then release these emotions.

How to Use Alchemy to Transform Anxiety

Learn how to use the practice of emotional alchemy to turn your fight-or-flight response into conquerable anxiety.

How Working With Spirit Animals Calms Anxiety

Renowned psychotherapist and shamanic healer Dr. Steven Farmer offers concrete ways to work with spirit animals to assist you in healing anxiety.

Podcast: Dr. David Rosmarin, How to Thrive With Anxiety

How can we reframe anxiety as a positive attribute to strengthen our resilience? Clinical psychologist Dr. David Rosmarin shares.

14 Positive Morning Strategies to Curb Anxiety

Struggling to get up in the morning and feeling anxious? Experiment with these 14 techniques to start the day strong.

How to Practice Qi Gong to Manage Anxiety

One medical qi gong practitioner shows how he utilizes the practice to help clients cope with stress and anxiety—a modern epidemic.

How Birdwatching Can Help Manage Depression, Anxiety, and Grief

A mental health practitioner explores how her birdwatching practice supported her—and can support us all—through some of life’s greatest challenges.

3 Ways to Manage Anxiety with Mindful CBT

Integrating mindfulness into cognitive behavioral therapy can provide profound relief from anxiety—a clinical psychologist offers insight into the benefits of this practice

How to Meditate With a Raisin to Ease Anxiety

The raisin meditation focuses all your senses to calm anxious thoughts.

Access Inner Guidance With a Meditative Tarot Reading for Anxiety

As a symbolic tool for introspection, tarot cards can help us transcend negative thinking and access our intuition. Add a meditative perspective on the tarot, and you have a recipe for deep healing.

Dairy-free, Anxiety-easing, Gut-saving Smoothies

“I cannot tell you how exciting and empowering it is to create these health-giving treats with such ease.”

Communicate to Reduce Stress, Anxiety, and Insomnia

The language we use when we speak to ourselves makes a profound difference in how we feel. These tools can help ease you to a calmer state.

Freeing Yourself of Anxiety Feet First

“How can you help yourself feel a sense of calm, reassurance, and peace? The answer is at your feet. Literally.”

Open Awareness Meditation: A Remedy for Anxiety, Stress, and Burnout

Whether you prefer a visual, auditory, or somatic approach, open awareness involves expanding your awareness and then intentionally observing everything inside it.

Switching Sounds: The Benefits of White Noise for Anxiety and Sleep

The sound energy of white noise is the same across the entire spectrum. Learn how this handy shock-absorber can relieve anxiety and improve sleep.

Science & Spirit: Matcha for Anxiety, Cultured Meats, and Soy Is Redeemed

This week, the focus is the latest news in nutrition. Discover how matcha tea helps with anxiety; why “clean meat” is a label you’re likely to soon see; and how soy has gotten a thumbs-up for heart health claims. Want the details? Here we go!

3 Sense Practices to Calm Anxiety

Our senses offer an immediate doorway to the present moment, and there are potent added benefits to these three sensory experiences. Try one the next time your stress and anxiety m…

7 Tools to Ease Anxiety at Family Gatherings

These tools will help you keep your cool through the chaos of the holidays.

How to Discern Anxiety From Intuition at the New Moon

Do you have difficulty differentiating anxiety from your intuition? The new moon gives us monthly chances to strengthen our inner wisdom and regulate the nervous system.

How Abdominal Massage Supports a Healthy Cycle and Manages Anxiety

Abdominal massage is a global practice that supports womb health and total-body healing. Learn how this practice can help manage anxiety and support a healthy menstrual cycle.

Creating a Forest Apothecary Garden to Manage Anxiety

Take your outdoor self-care to the next level this spring. Explore how creating a forest apothecary garden can help manage anxiety.

Summertime Self-Care for Reentry Anxiety

Some days going to the beach with friends is self-care. Others it may be watching nature shows at home alone.

Astrology Therapy: Can Birth Charts Help You Overcome Anxiety?

A chart reading doesn’t predict the future; it describes the user to themselves. The better you understand yourself—the less anxious you feel.

10 Cognitive Distortions That Contribute to Anxiety and Depression

Discover common and harmful cognitive distortions, how they work, and why they are misleading.

10 Tried and True Anxiety Relief Affirmations for Staying Calm in the Chaos

“Anxiety isn’t trying to limit me but free me from a situation that no longer feels good.”

6 Vibrational Healing Practices for Anxiety and Excessive Overthinking

Anything and everything you ingest has a vibration, so be mindful and bring an awareness of spiritual vibration energy to each experience.

6 Pantry Staples to Help Kick Anxiety to the Curb

Foods rich in tryptophan, omega-3s, magnesium, B vitamins, and potassium are likely sitting on your shelf right now.

How Listening to Your Gut Can Curb Anxiety: An Eater’s Guide

Creating balance in your gut can help to alleviate your anxiety.

Science & Spirit: Brain fog, deep sleep for anxiety, and why you should lace up those running shoes.

This week, the world of science made some interesting connections. Researchers found that inflammation may be the cause of brain fog, that deep sleep stages calm an overly anxious mind, and that any amount of running is better than no running. For details, read on.

Calming The Anxious Mind

Giving clients control leads to better results.

How Faux-giveness Creates Anxiety and Stunts Spiritual Growth

If you accept apologies even when you don't feel like it, you might be practicing “faux-giveness.” Learn how to change that pattern and live with less stress.

Rewiring Your Relationship with Tension and Anxiety

Here are ways to embrace, rather than avoid stress.

“My Worst Panic Attack Ever Came Out of the Blue!”

The body has its own way of processing emotions. “The rush of symptoms people experience in a panic attack is a tsunami of fear being released in the body. The question is: What’s deep below the surface that keeps building up fear that needs to be released?”

10 Affirmations for Nervous Flyers and Travel Anxiety

Buckle your seat belt, sit back, and enjoy the ride with affirmations for travel anxiety.

A Spell to Stop Worrying

Spells are only as powerful as the intentions and emotions they raise inside you.

Praying to a Loving God Guards Against Anxiety Disorders

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening. ~ Mahatma Gandhi What are your deepest beliefs regarding the nature of God? When you pray, do you talk to a loving, p…

Mindfulness for the Wallflower

Meditation is at the core of a new generation of treatments for social anxiety.

5-Minute Pratyahara Meditation to Focus the Mind and Calm Anxiety

Use this guided meditation to draw the senses closer to connect with the body in the present moment.

Book Review: The Gifts Beneath Your Anxiety by Pat Longo

Anxiety, panic attacks, sadness, and heightened sensitivity can carry with them a multitude of other effects—headaches, depression, and impediments from life’s joys. However…

An Old and Surprisingly Helpful Definition of Sin

What if we define sin as “anxious self-centeredness”? When we empty ourselves of lower energies, what takes their place?

Don’t Choke

Try these tricks to handle the pressure of performance.

Don’t Panic! Worrying About Your Health can Trigger Real Symptoms

Your mom always told you that worrying would make the shot worse, and now research confirms that some things really do hurt more if you think they will.

5 Practices for Calming Racing Thoughts

Racing thoughts can be overwhelming, confusing, and distressing.

Meditation Is Hard When You Hate Yourself

Maybe at some point you decided to try meditation. Maybe the practice you began back then fulfills you still. Or maybe not.

A Little Meditation Goes a Long Way

You don’t need to be an expert in mindfulness meditation to experience its amazing stress-relieving benefits.

An Interview with Andrea Petersen

S&H caught up with journalist Andrea Petersen, author of On Edge: A Journey through Anxiety.

Book Review: The Comfort Crisis

“Do hard things and the rest of life gets easier”

I Ching Divination for Tackling Overwhelm

Focus on a dilemma or stressor, then use the ancient text to interpret coin tosses in order to resolve it.

Crystals for Panic Attacks

Discover how to use hematite, malachite, and morganite crystals for panic attacks.

My Dancing Warrior

An excerpt from Goodbye Parkinson’s, Hello Life!

Why We Fear the Future

People who struggle to deal with uncertainty may in fact may have an unusually large striatum.

3 Things You Should Never Say to an Anxious Child (and What to Do Instead)

It’s normal to be anxious, and it’s normal to react poorly to anxiety in others! Here are some tips if you’re around anxious children.

Why Do So Many of Us Live in Fear?

"If only they knew: For us, fear is not a choice. A little fear is necessary for survival: Ask any gazelle. But too much fear can be as crippling as too little."

Train Your Nervous System for Calm

Two ways to access calm strength within ourselves.

22 Affirmations to Ease Overthinking

Stuck in a thought-loop of negative self-talk? Try utilizing positive affirmations to reframe your overthinking.

6 Specific Ways to Soothe Your Nervous System

Anxious? You have the power to make yourself feel better.

4 Practices to Transform Holiday Stress

Use these mindful methods to prepare for the holiday season with greater ease and less anxiety.

20 Mental Health Mantras to Keep Top-of-Mind This Holiday Season

Go-to mantras to relieve holiday stress, anxiety, and depression.

Art Journaling for Relaxation and Release

Reduce anxiety and express yourself with 3 DIY art journaling prompts.

How to Stop a Panic Attack

3 steps to warding off rising panic.

Stress as Unhealthy To Swallow as Fries

Stress can alter the digestive system, not just the mind and spirit.

A Root Cause of Pessimism, Revealed

New research could lead to better treatment of anxiety and depression.

5 Ways to Calm Down During COVID-19

It’s a pandemic and you’re a stress ball. Here are 5 ways to catch your breath and calm down.

Stressed Out? Make a Checklist.

This one simple strategy can help you significantly reduce your anxiety and stress.

Worry—It Does a Body Good

A psychology professor argues that worrying is actually good for the mind and body.

The Secret Life of Tickling

Which brain structures are at play during a tickle fight? Researchers found out.

The Joys of Decoupling

A weeklong retreat beyond words and even snuggling.

Sahar Paz: Find Your Voice

“Don’t let my shero cape become my veil.”

Tips for Sleeping Peacefully While Anxious

Useful tips to prevent insomnia due to anxiety.

The Art of Worrying

Worry creates a sense of powerlessness that fuels sensations of fear and anxiety. The more empowered we feelthe more we sense that whatever happens, we can successfully handlethe less necessary worrying becomes.

10 Instant Ways to Calm Yourself Down

If you’re easily overwhelmed, try these techniques to get centered.

How to Relax When Seeing the Dentist

Dr. Ross Chiaramonte on overcoming dentist phobia. Sponsored Content from Reputation.CA

A Better Way to Break-Up

The pain of divorce can bring us to our knees. What if there’s a way not just to regain our footing but to step onto a new emotional path?

Is Mindfulness Really the Best Way to Reduce Worry?

A new study examines how different practices benefit people who worry a lot.

You Were Not Born with Low Self-Esteem

Adapted from Unworthy: How to Stop Hating Yourself

Why Do I Worry So Much?

5 steps to prevent excessive worrying.

How Excessive Emotions Can Harm the Body

Ayurveda teaches us that emotions are connected to some of the body's major organs. Explore practical ways to soothe anxiety, grief, and anger and help heal the physical body.

4 Simple Ways to Cultivate Connection and Belonging

Feeling disconnected from your community and the world around you? Dive into four ways to develop connection and belonging.

2 Techniques to Cultivate Bravery When You Need It Most

Overburdened? Try two techniques that can boost your bravery when you need it most.

Book Review: Worth the Risk

During the past two years, the never-ending news cycle focusing on the dangers of the world led many to hunker down in their desire to remain “safe.” Kristen Lee observes in her ne…

Delightfully Deep in the Weeds

Our lead digital editor spent a week apprenticed to a master seaweed harvester—and learned much more than how to gather kelp.

Anxious? Try Float Therapy

If you’ve been struggling with an overstimulated nervous system and are seeking a new way to nourish yourself, try floating.

Guided Meditation: How to Be Present With Big Emotions

Learn how to be fully in the moment with big emotions with this gentle meditation.

Overcoming Fear—the Buddhist Way

If you feel caught in a fear loop, work with these five Buddhist methods to ground yourself.

The Good Noise: Sound Medicine Works

While researchers are still exploring the mechanism of sound medicine, studies show that sound therapy boosts spiritual wellbeing and reduces anxiety and pain.

Is Hypnosis a Faster Form of Therapy?

Hypnosis can help you get to the root of an issue quickly. It’s increasingly being used as a supplement to psychoanalysis.

Reboot Your Nervous System With Yoga Nidra

When your nervous system needs a reset, try yoga nidra. Learn more about the power and benefits of this practice.

The Spiritual Meaning of Panic Attacks

Panic attacks can be scary and require care, but they can also teach us a lot about ourselves. Explore the spiritual meaning of panic attacks.

From the Editor: Getting Witchy

From oracle decks to witches to all things somatic and body-based.

6 Ways to Ease Acroparesthesia

Acroparesthesia is often a burning feeling in your hands or feet and can cause pain, discomfort, and anxiety.

Cryotherapy for Stress-Busting

Immersing our bodies in cold temps may help build our tolerance for stress and possibly even long-term anxiety.

6 Signs You May Have COVID Trauma

Exhausted by constant risk assessments? Are friendships forming or dissolving based solely on pandemic vigilance? You may be experiencing COVID trauma.

Book Review: Leave Society

Leave Society is, to borrow its protagonist’s phrase, the record of a “life explored with leisurely meticulousness.” The book begins in 2014 and chronicles a novelist named Li’s l…

Podcast: Hala Khouri, on Trauma

The idea of collective trauma and individual trauma have shaped the work of yoga teacher, therapist, and activist Hala Khouri.

Lessening Fear

Unlock the key to lessening fear and embracing gratitude and aliveness.

Moments of Sweetness: Nonattachment in Difficult Times

Something joyful, beautiful, pleasurable, or delicious is happening: Notice moments of sweetness.

Anxious Right Now? 8 Helpful Tools

Whether it be the result of a big presentation, an important exam, or even a small task, anxiety comes in all shapes and sizes. It may feel overpowering at times, but you can conquer it.

The Antidote to Toxic Positivity

Difficult emotions are there for a reason. There is one cure for toxic positivity.

Writing Yourself Back to Yourself

Meera Lee Patel’s latest journal, Create Your Own Calm, is publishing as anxiety levels across the world are rising dramatically. Patel shared her creative process and personal journaling practice with S&H.

We All Suffer From H.E.L.P. (Human Existential Looping Problem), but There’s Help!

Stuck in a rut—or a loop? “Thoughts we’ve had thousands of times are easier to have again than new, creative thoughts. ... So what are we to do about our loops getting stronger with every repetition?”

6 Ways Nature Can Help You Now

Nature provides a welcome respite from the chaos of the modern world. Seeking out the solace found in the natural world can offer a path out of feeling hopeless.

Pregnant During a Pandemic

Pregnancy naturally causes anxiety—then tack on a pandemic. Writer Julie Peters shares her journey and how working on stress-management skills helps.

How to Support a Loved One Struggling with Mental Illness

Here are eight tips for sincerely supporting a loved one who is struggling with mental health, plus seven additional tips for supporting those with suicidal thoughts.

An Unexpected Gift of Ginger

Like serotonin for your soul, ginger root during the pandemic can be a balm for anxiety—among its many other benefits. Mary Novaria spins a yarn about how the superfood brought her relief.

Finding Balance in a Pandemic

Finding balance isn't easy in these tightrope-walking days. But: “Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds’ wings.” –Rumi

4 Ways to Mindfully Consume News During Coronavirus

With news this intense and upsetting, we need to monitor our own consumption very carefully.

Fear or Intuition?

Fear and intuition are hard to tell apart.

Feeling Stuck? Try Diving Into Your Fears

This feeling of being stuck seems to reside deep in our gut, and it is surrounded by fear.

Are You a Stressaholic? Here’s a Five-Minute Fix

What does it feel like to be in a relaxed state? What triggers me back into a state of stress? What are the signs?

10 Telltale Signs of Low Self-Esteem

Anneli Rufus is a frequent contributor to Spirituality & Health. Her books Party of One: The Loners' Manifesto and the Nautilus Award-winning Stuck: Why We Can't (or Won't) Move On examined our lives as individuals in a crowded world. Rufus’ upcoming work, Unworthy: How to Stop Hating Yourself, will be released by Tarcher Penguin in the spring and continues this path, addressing self-esteem. It serves as the catalyst for this blog and asks: Why do we feel the way we do about ourselves?

How (Besides Self-Hatingly) to Analyze Any Situation

The only thing I know for sure is that I deserve this.

Being in the Flow of Heartache and Pain

Yoga and mindfulness can help us recognize that our discomfort has a flow.

5 Ideas When Things Are Beyond Your Control

When everything feels up in the air, here’s how to keep worry from taking over.

3 Powerful Practices to Free Yourself From Overwhelm

While the chaotic feeling of overwhelm has been normalized—it isn’t “normal.” Here are three ways to overcome the frenzy of your busy schedule and the constant feeling of overwhelm.

Crossing the River of Self-Doubt

In this week’s The Soul of Therapy, psychologist Kevin Anderson, Ph.D., shares how to tackle self-doubt and low self-esteem.

Healing Our Inner Wounds

Explore sage advice and a powerful 12-minute guided meditation from psychotherapist Andrea Wachter that can help you embrace your emotions and experience healing and relief.

Healing the Worry Habit

The "worry habit" can be inherited, but it can also be transformed. Explore one life coach and medium's methods for un-learning fear, and enjoy a short calming meditation.

5 Yogic Practices for the Vagus Nerve

The vagus nerve helps us build emotional resilience and manage our fight-or-flight and rest-and-digest processes. Explore five yogic practices to help strengthen the vagus nerve.

5 Must-Have Tools to Turn Fight-or-Flight Into Rest-and-Digest

Use these five creative tools to shift from the sympathetic nervous system into the parasympathetic nervous system.

How Anticipation Can Be Beneficial

Anticipation can be beneficial for your brain, your emotions, and even your physical health for many reasons, and it’s a skill worth learning.

Wake up from Unworthiness

An Interview with Tara Brach

How Your Brain Hides Painful Memories

A new study has sheds light on exactly how the brain hides memories.

3 Ways To Increase Your Social Intelligence

At the age of 54 my client, Doug, has no job, a stilted romantic relationship, and no friends. He fears he’s going to end up alone and homeless if things don’t change soon. The cor…

Release Your Stress for a Good Night’s Sleep

Stress can make getting to sleep at night a very real challenge.

People-Pleaser Syndrome Almost Always Backfires

If you and I meet anytime, in any way, today, these things will almost certainly occur: I'll say yes when my heart and mind mean no. I'll feel, perhaps throughout our entire inte…

Creating Calm From Chaos

The issue of stress is rampant in our culture. Mindful Yoga Therapy, supported by Give Back Yoga Foundation, is offering a path to healing for these individuals.

How to Feed the Brain in Your Belly

Fixing your digestion can make you feel a lot less anxious.

What Did You Talk Yourself Out of Today?

I recently sampled not one but two of the richest, thickest, sweetest, most stratospherically satiny ice creams I've ever tasted.One of these was High Road Craft Ice Cream, made by…

How to Believe in Yourself

If you don’t believe in yourself, if you don’t trust yourself, here are ideas to nurture faith.

Existential Angst and Social Media

Using social media can be bad for your health. Existentialist wisdom can help remove the angst from digital life.

Spiritual Insight on Vulnerability From Schitt’s Creek

You live inside your skin tone, your mental health situation, your flawed family. “Like Johnny and Moira, we don’t need to be stigmatized or made to feel less than fully human when we’re up a creek without a paddle.”

7 Daily Shinto Rituals

Lifelong Shinto practitioner suggests ways to incorporate Shinto cleansing and purifying rituals.

Self-Care Guilt (And Why You Should Let It Go)

Feeling guilty about not practicing enough self-care or like you’re not doing it right? Go ahead and take these off your list of things to worry about.

Student-Self and Teacher-Soul

“Very often, our anxious self will attack a problem, looking for how to juggle, maintain, or solve what has been set in motion, while the teacher within will stand back and question our very assumptions, even our very definition of what constitutes a problem.”

What Is Grounding?

Able to be practiced anywhere, by anyone, and at any time, grounding is an effective way to cope with anxiety.

How to Use Guided Meditations

Guided meditation can be used to promote better sleep, reduce stress and anxiety, and even to relieve chronic pain.

How Much CBD is Enough for Me?

Intrigued about the topical use of CBD for pain relief, anti-inflammatory purposes, and anti-anxiety? Read on to learn more.

Don’t Ignore Being Overwhelmed

“When overwhelm is given the time and space it needs to be processed, it transforms into a victory attempting to happen.”

All Together Now

“It’s true that we get clarity about what matters during a crisis, and, hopefully, as a society, we actually can readjust toward things that do matter.” —Singer Damian Kulash of OK Go

“It All Feels Like Way Too Much”

Where can you put your anxiety so that you can continue functioning?

Meditation for Teen Emotional Wellbeing

A unique retreat program combats increasing rates of stress, anxiety, and depression in young people.

Becoming a Grown-up in Middle Age

Accepting (even embracing) challenging emotions takes practice, but it's never too late.

How to Use Ashwagandha Root

A longtime staple in ayurvedic medicine, ashwagandha root is touted for treating everything from anxiety to insomnia—but does it work? And how much should you take?

How to Use EMDR Therapy

EMDR takes traumatic memories and removes the anxiety connected with them. It can create healing that seems magical.

Surrender: A Practice of Uncertainty

COVID-19 has anxiety on high. To cope: It’s time to surrender.

The Brainbow Blueprint for Mental Health

There’s a saying that asking people to change their diet is like asking them to change their religion. What we eat and how we eat might be our most personal choices.

4 Herbal Cures for Christmas Crises

These simple herbal remedies help treat over-indulgence, anxiety, tension, and lowered immune systems, all in time for the holidays.

6 Ways to Fight Holiday Insomnia

An expert in cognitive behavioral therapies targeting better sleep provides six strategies to help you ward off sleeplessness during the holidays.

9 Adaptogens To Restore Your Body

Try these natural and effective remedies and increase your resistance to stress, anxiety, and fatigue.

Are You a Workaholic? Better Read This

Workaholics are more likely to suffer from anxiety and other disorders.

The Medicine of Laughter

Stressed? Suffering from anxiety? Under the weather? Try laughing.

4 Ways to Manage Holiday Overwhelm

Learn how to vanquish anxiety and actually enjoy the holidays with these tips.

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In our special section we explore CBD from a variety of angles. Dive in to get up to speed on this huge trend.

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Is Your Mind Broadcasting Fake News?

We who experience anxiety, depression and self-hatred know fake news better than anyone.

The Healing Powers of Singing

Singing with a group relieves anxiety and depression, according to a new study.

Relieve Tension With Scent

Relieve anxiety, tension, and headaches with this essential oil blend.

5 Quick Ways to Manage Big Emotions

Overwhelming emotions are common but often feel insurmountable. Try these five techniques to ground yourself and unwind.

How to Get Yourself Unstuck From Stress

A physical therapist offers her best tips—from personal experience—to re-awaken the mind and body after being stuck in stress mode.

Tending to Your Brain’s Alarm System in Times of Stress

Explore these concrete ways to re-program the "smoke alarm" in your brain for more calm and less anxiety.

Practices for Shattered Nights

"March 11th was a normal day, filled with typical responsibilities and joys, concerns and endeavors, practices and distractions. March 12th, I awoke to a new normal…"

Are Your Crystals Ethically Sourced?

There’s a dirty side to crystal mining. The good news is there are ethical options for fans of these spiritual gems.

How to Better Parent and Support Your Kids

30 world-renowned teachers and leaders provide insight on how to better parent and support your kids.

Benefits of Catnip … For Humans Too!

Repel mosquitos, chill out, and get a good night’s sleep with catnip.

Psychedelic Medicine Comes of Age

One little mushroom can alleviate anxiety and depression, provide insight, and catalyze spiritual transformation. Want a bite?

Why Nostalgia is Good for Us

Nostalgia has been found to be a valuable coping tool for dealing with loneliness, boredom, and anxiety.

Moving from Fear to Flow

How to identify the fears blocking your relationship—and melt them away to restore wonder

How to Embrace New Year's Resolutions When You Don't Believe in Yourself

Self-loathing can turn this annual self-help ritual into a slippery slope. New Year's resolutions are wonderful in principle. What spurs self-improvement better than specific, sta…

The Yoga of Critical Thinking

I was talking recently with a fellow yoga teacher about a student who takes three to four classes every day. He was a little worried about the effect that might be having on her bo…

Yoga for Releasing Anger

Anger: we all know it, many of us well. But at a yoga party, it would be gauche to bring up the raging intensity sitting in your gut. We’re all focusing on the positive here, right…

Contemplating Injury: What Yoga Has Taught Me About Pain

This is how bad things have gotten: I am squatting on my floor by a low table to write this because I threw out my back again and I am in extreme pain. Pain, however, can lead to r…

Sun Salutations: A Dance with the Breath

I wish I could speak like music.I wish I could put the swaying splendorOf the fields into wordsSo that you could hold TruthAgainst your bodyAnd dance.I am trying the best I canWith…

Talking With People Who Trigger Your Issues

I met a supermodel last week.Daisy Lowe, whose archangelic statuesquity graces Vogue and other fashion hotspots, appears in a stunning set of images recently commissioned by the Gr…

When "Just Breathe" Isn't Enough: Practices for Deep Breathing

Breathing is, indeed, good for you. It’s been shown that breathing into the belly helps encourage a relaxed state in your body, nourishes your organs, calms the nervous system, and…

Yoga in Your Pocket

Yoga is a good thing to have in your pocket.I’m writing this from the hotel restaurant in Charlotte, North Carolina, where I’ve spent the past week at the National Poetry Slam comp…

Parenting As Sacred Activism

A conversation with a friend and fellow activist inspired me to offer some special love and appreciation to all of you parents out there this week. My friend, a longtime mover and …

The Art of Receiving

There’s an origin story that many yogis have: there was a first moment, a realization, a falling in love, a desire to shout from the rooftops: “Yoga saved me!”. For me and many oth…

Zen and the Art of Not Tearing Your Hair Out

If you had a time machine, would you speed forward into the future or relive the past?Someone asked me this once in a car on a road trip, and while my car-mates reminisced about ti…

5 Reasons Not to Meditate

I’ll be honest: I’ve never liked meditating. I’ve dabbled in it, and forced myself to sit for 30 day meditation challenges, and it was boring and hard. Plus life is so busy: Five m…

Pitch, Pace, and Pause

As some of you already know, I am a spoken word poet, which means, generally speaking, that I talk about my feelings in front of half-drunk audiences on Monday nights at a neighbor…

Bringing Food: Making a Gift of Comfort More Meaningful

By Michelle Smith When we hear of a death in our family or community we feel a powerful urge to offer comfort—and so, we bring food. In almost any culture bringing food to t…

The Hidden Dangers of Sunshine and Flowers

As many of you already know, I am not what I would describe as a ‘sunshine and flowers’ yoga teacher. Listening to teachers talk about how wonderful all creation is and seeing insp…

The Chakras for Emotional Clarity

In emotionally confusing situations, our first urge is to try to understand. We use our logical brains to try to figure out things like grief, pain, and (strangest of all) other pe…

Getting What You Want Might Not Destroy Western Civilization

Boarding the Azamara Quest in Barcelona, about to start a week-long Riviera cruise, I felt joy and two types of anxiety. One was luxuryphobia. The other was mortal fear.Surely, I t…

Giving Thanks for 21 Blessings in Disguise

by Belinda Munoz Editors’ Note: This guest post originally appeared on Belinda Munoz’s blog, The Halfway Point. We found Belinda’s list so inspiring, and are grateful to her for a…

The Nuts and Bolts of our Meditation Practice

We had 12 people last Sunday night in our local group for our regular meditation and discussion. We spent our time talking about about the nuts and bolts (yes, sometimes sitting ma…

The Happiness Track: The Life Stories We Tell for Health

Genetics play a role in our health, but we also have control in the choices we make about how we live.

Using Technology So It Doesn’t Use You

Take these two actions to set boundaries around your phone and social media.

From Holidaze to Holydays: A 7-minute Reset

An audio meditation to help reset from your worst self to your best self.

Three Strategies for Touchy Topics During the Holidays

The holidays can be rife with conflict, division and struggle. Here are some ideas that can help.

Another Reason to Snuggle

Is cuddling going to regulate your gut bacteria? New research suggests yes.

Why Your Brain Needs to Dream

Research shows that dreaming is not just a byproduct of sleep, but serves its own important functions in our well-being.

Become Free From Addiction through Spiritual Understanding: Part 1 of 2

Jagad Guru says that all addiction is rooted in misunderstandings about who we are and what we need to be truly happy and fulfilled.

Is Buddhism True?

An Interview with Robert Wright

3 Ways To Keep Your Digestive Fires Burning Bright for the Holidays

Try these three recipes for better digestion.

7 Questions to Help Connect Us to Our Truth and Integrity

Adapted from The Integrity Advantage: Step into Your Truth, Love Your Life, & Claim Your Magnificence

4 Better Ways to Breathe

Techniques for becoming more aware of your breathing patterns.

5 Questions for Cheryl Richardson

Best-selling author Cheryl Richardson delves into midlife challenges and experiments with journal writing in her long-awaited return, Waking Up in Winter: In Search of What Really …

Purpose-​Centered Therapy

Shoma Morita was a Zen Buddhist, and his therapy left a lasting spiritual mark on Japan.

Finding Refuge Robin Stremlow

Gratitude for the sisterhood at a Tibetan Buddhist Nunnery

How a New Blend of Mindful Movement Can Help You Heal

Use this method to process traumatic experiences and work through challenging emotional states.

Our Walk in the World: Original Steps

The life of a community depends on how we care for the ground we stand on and how we step lightly, walking side by side.

10 Ways to Avoid Drama Burnout

Find ways to take a break from overwhelming situations.

Mindfulness: More Rigor, Less Hype

A panel of experts calls for more consistent scientific examination of mindfulness.

How to Find Calm Amid Chaos

Begin to lessen the overwhelming emotional response you may be experiencing to the smallest provocation.

New Moon Meditation: Pause the Breath, Pause the Mind

Try this audio meditation for slowing down the mind.

Do You Suffer from Secondhand Stress?

Do you cringe when you see someone get yelled at, hurt, or embarrassed? Do you tend to soak up others’ emotions—especially the feelings of those close to you? A new study has…

Core Fears Trigger Reactive Behaviors

Core needs and fears are like two sides of a coin. If a core need feels frustrated or unmet, a core fear will be triggered. For example, if you don’t feel accepted or valued, this …

A Practice to Heal Prejudice

How loving-kindness meditation taps the roots of empathy

Are Nanoparticles in Sunscreen Safe?

Nano-Nano: Will someone please tell us if sunscreen is safe?

The Upside of Stress

The stress response is your best ally during difficult moments—a resource to rely on rather than an enemy to vanquish.

Four Legal Entheogens for the Spiritual Explorer

Throughout human history, spiritual seekers have used sacred plants and fungi for healing, visionary encounters, and mystical experience. Though this history has been largely obfus…

Book Review: Capture

Capture: Unraveling the Mystery of Mental SufferingBy David A. Kessler, MDHarperWaveWho hasn’t wished they could control the anger, grief, and anxiety that lead to actions tha…

The Hormone Cure

Reclaim Balance, Sleep, Sex Drive and Vitality Naturally with the Gottfried ProtocolBy Sara GottfriedSCRIBNERFor the woman who never experiences fatigue, sugar cravings, or PM…

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Understanding Your Cravings

Dieting mythologies have taught us that cravings are our enemies. We are told to ignore the plaintive cries of our evil bodies as they try to trick us into feeding them!Cravings ar…

Waking Up Gently to Save the World

From Fortune 500 CEOs to neuroscientists, major media outlets to bloggers, sources of all kinds are urging us to prioritize sleep as a pathway to success and wellness.

How Meditation and Mindfulness Help Ease Chronic Illness

A novel study found that patients who practice meditation and mindfulness experience better sleep and relaxation patterns and have a more accepting outlook toward living with a long-term illness.

Healing Gifts from the Path of Sikh Dharma

This month we are celebrating the birthday of Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth Guru of the Sikhs. He was born in northern India in 1666, and we celebrate his birthday on January 16th. …

Does Spontaneous Crying Mean I’m an Empath?

Does it ever seem like you’re crying for no reason? Spontaneous crying may be a signal that you're an empath.

How to Tap into Your Light When the World Feels Dark

As we move away from thinking of positive emotions as a hedonistic escape plan, we begin to understand the immense power that they have to transform our human experience and to gal…

The Slippery Slope of Trust

As a society, most of us would unanimously rank trust as an important part of relationships. We want to trust that the people we live with, work with, and love, are going to do eve…

Breaking Your Addiction to Thinking

Thinking is obviously an important tool. Humans have the powerful ability to think about the past and the future, make narratives about our lives that help us navigate new situatio…

Why Commit? And How?

Once upon a time, people spent their whole lives in one career until they retired. In this world, marriage was a given: it happened early and it was lifelong. Commitment was easy: …

Be Yourself: Leave People-Pleasing to the Bee Gees

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the ways in which my work as an artist and my work as a yoga teacher are really just exactly the same.I do think of teaching yoga as a form of…

8 Creative Techniques to Cope with Painful Emotions

Many of us have a hard time coping with negative emotions. This makes sense. “Painful feelings like anxiety, sadness, anger and shame tap into the parts of our brain that are conne…

5 Meditations for Navigating Negative, Anxious Thoughts

Navigating negative, anxious thoughts is hard. It’s hard when your mind ruminates on rigid thoughts: I should do things quickly. I should be more productive. I should never say thi…

15 Creative Ways to Spend the Week

Creativity is powerful for all of us. We can channel our pain into penning a poem, singing a song or moving our bodies. We can channel our joy into making a nourishing meal. We can…

Nourishing the Different Types of Intimacy in Your Relationship

When we talk about being intimate in a romantic relationship, we often equate it to sexual intimacy. But sex is just one form of intimacy.

The Experience of Enough

I read Geneen Roth’s best-selling When Food Is Love 20 years and 30 pounds ago. For the first time in my life since I was six, I stopped dieting and started listening to what my bo…

How to Practice Self-compassion

The secret to empowered action is learning not to beat yourself up.

What’s Hiding in Your Hips?

Yoga teachers often refer to the pelvis as “the junk drawer of emotions.” Discover your hip pain emotions and how to get unstuck.

Making Music That Heals

Creating music that taps deeply into our consciousness, composer and performer Barry Goldstein is helping people cope with everything from Parkinson’s disease to depression.

Caffeine: Habit or Hooked?

Do you have an innocent coffee habit—or an addiction?

Keeping Healthy Boundaries

You may be familiar with the psychological term “boundaries,” but what does it mean and how does it apply to you?Put plainly, boundaries are the line between where I end and you be…

Extreme Simplicity

10 Lessons from the 4th Century Desert Dwellers

Shift Your Body, Shift Your Mind

At the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, we have worked for the last few years to find ways to help our veterans returning from Iraq an…

How the Body Creates Our Moods

Classic research grounds our moods in the body, not in the head, and points toward simple steps to happiness.

Kneading Love and Loss in the Kitchen

Lily Diamond learned the sensorial magic of culinary creativity from her mother, whose life was cut tragically short. In her new book Kale and Caramel (Atria 2017), Diamond shares …

Forest Bathing

“But I’ll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest, and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything.” —Alan Watts Ha…

3 Keys to Unlock the Genetic Switch of Your Stress Response

The pinging phone, back to back meetings, rush hour traffic; most of us get a little on edge when we are face to face with high stress situations. We also probably know people who …

One Simple Trick to Make Life Easier

I don’t always make New Year’s resolutions—I find the darkest coldest months a pretty difficult time to start new things. This year, however, I did make one that not only helped me…

Making the Most of Exercise

Thinking about how good exercise is for you before your morning walk can actually make that morning walk better for you.Each of us comes to fitness with our own ideas about it. May…

On Meditating Badly

Every morning, I meditate. Badly. I know meditation is good for me. Meditation can help with anxiety, stress, insomnia, self-esteem and a whole host of other things. There are a m…

Making the Most of Exercise

Thinking about how good exercise is for you before your morning walk can actually make that morning walk better for you.Each of us comes to fitness with our own ideas about it. May…

Ancient Art of Incense

If you don’t already use it daily, you may associate incense with your college years—the familiar smell and smoke in dorm rooms masking, well, other familiar smells associate…

How Gut Health Affects Your Mood

“It turns out that there are gut microbes that can produce neurotransmitters that can alter our emotional state.”

How Do I Find The One?

Around Valentine’s Day, a lot of people are thinking about love—whether they want to be or not. A set of particularly anxious questions can arise: How do I find the One? How do I k…

Tiny Traumas Are Traumatic Too

I hadn't seen Tracey in over a year. And I was wrangling, that morning, with the latest in a long series of anxiety attacks, which made me not want to see anyone.But cancelling our…

Finding Calm in the Chaos

There is a population of people where anger is an accepted, indeed expected, emotion. The emotions of fear and sadness however, are not. In this culture, violence and addiction are…

10 Nighttime Routines for Peaceful Sleep

“How can you possibly start your day off bright-eyed and bushy-tailed if you don’t get a proper night’s sleep?”

The Power of Your Mistakes

We are living in a time of more choice than ever before. Not only can we order pretty much anything online, we are free to marry whoever we want whenever we choose, we can pursue w…

10 Lies My Breast Surgeon Told Me

By Bianca Alexander and Howard Jacobson, Ph.D.According to the NIH, approximately 1 in 8 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer at some point in their lifetime. While technical…

Foreboding Joy

“The best thing about yoga,” a teacher of mine used to say, “is that it makes you more sensitive. The worst thing about yoga is that it makes you more sensitive.” We sometimes get …

Has Low Self-Esteem Made You Forget How to Have Fun?

One night two weeks ago, while watching a Nebraska-based trance band, I suddenly remembered how to have fun.It happened effortlessly—as shake-out-your-sleeves-and-collapse-on-the-h…

Mixed Emotions of the Holidays

As the holiday season is now in full swing, I can’t help but observe the swing of emotions—mine and that of those all around me.On one hand, there is the child-like delight of magi…

Reclaim Your Body

The yoga that we practice here in North America has a fascinating and complex history and lineage. There are influences from different branches of Hindu religion, Buddhist philosop…

Mindfulness: A Gentle Approach to Healing

There’s an interesting story about a woman being chased by a tiger. She is running for her life and comes to the edge of a cliff. Here, she notices a sturdy vine, and climbs down t…

Green Tea Instantly Boosts Working Memory

Do you need an extra surge of brain power for a big test or a difficult project? You might want to consider switching out your coffee for green tea as new research has shown that t…

The Power of the “And Principle”: A Lesson in Tantra

This year, I’ve been deepening my research into Tantric yoga philosophy while also taking courses on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (or CBT), which is a modern psychological practic…

Can Spirituality Protect Against Negative Emotions in Heart Disease?

There is no doubt how strongly our negative emotions affect our physiology. When we feel anxious, there is a gnawing sensation in our gut. When depressed, our whole body seems to s…

Can a Hug a Day Keep the Doctor Away?

It’s cold and flu season again — make sure you get plenty of sleep, take some extra vitamin C and … hug each other a little more. Yes, that’s right. A new study reveal…

Got a Busy Schedule? You May Not Need More Time, Just Energy and Perspective

Do you keep a running to-do list that never seems to end? Do self-directed commands such as “send emails” or “write resume” or “buy salad ingredients” always end up on tomorrow’s l…

Intensive Mindfulness for Depression

What’s been on your mind lately? If you’re like most of us, a lot of your time is spent pondering things that are rooted in the past or the future: the dentist appointment in a few…

Playing with Relationship Fire

I’ve been watching a trend among some of the people I work with—they are playing with fire in their relationships. But I can’t help but wonder, can you really play with fire and no…

Just Don't Do It

Do you do certain things only because of fear and anxiety? Give yourself permission to stop.A feel-good moment in countless fairy tales, songs, advertising jingles, children's film…

11 Ways to Decalcify Your Pineal Gland for Wellbeing

When you decalcify the pineal gland—known as the third-eye chakra—you remove calcium phosphate deposits. This can lead not only to better health and wellbeing but to higher consciousness.

Can We Give and Get Gifts Without Hating Ourselves (or Anyone Else)?

My mother's birthday was last week. Because she's left ths world, I couldn't send her a gift.This was a bittersweet relief.Opening gifts almost always made Mom cry—not with joy, bu…

The Ultimate De-Stressing Daily Routine

Put this anti-stress routine on your to-do list for a more zen approach to daily life.

Finding Spiritual Strength in Severe Illness

“Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can’t stand the suffer…

Divinity at the Dinner Table

I recently did a 21-day sugar detox and although I expected it to be interesting, amazing and at times even harrowing, I never expected it to be the topic of a blog about spiritual…

Recovering from Trauma? Listen to What Your Body’s Trying to Tell You

The massage therapist slid her hand under my sacrum, and waited. I wasn’t sure what this was supposed to feel like and apparently nothing was happening.“What do you feel?” she aske…

Helping Graduates Transition into the Real World

As the end of the school year approaches, expectations and anxiety begin to loom in equal measure. Prior to graduation, the notion that “now life really begins” fills people with g…

Turn Everything Into a Self-Esteem Game-Changer

Low self-esteem is hard to lift. Unlike high self-esteem, which is primed to respond rapidly to even slight praise—You love my new haircut? Me too!—low self-esteem is notoriously s…

7 Stories to Inspire Getting Outdoors

Spring is here! It’s time to come out of hibernation and step into the great outdoors. Not that we need any convincing, but for years, scientists have been claiming the importance …

Struggling with Food Cravings? Mindfulness Can Help

Do you struggle with intense food cravings? If so, you understand that powerless feeling—when the craving takes control and you begin to feel like a passenger in Mr. Toad’s W…

10 Keys to a Happier Life­­

What are the daily habits of truly happy people? And how can we incorporate these habits into our daily lives? Action for Happiness—a movement dedicated to helping people ex…

Shop Courageously: Learning to Trust Your Judgement

Find your strengths and feel worthy of that next big purchase.We were deciding where to hang some paintings."Over the sofa," I suggested. "Oh, but then we'd have to hammer nails in…

Yoga as Medicine

The other night, my partner got a migraine. He was writhing in bed, ibuprofen scattered around the room, ice packs and hot water bottles strewn everywhere. I did what I do best in…

Yoga for Allergies Part 2: The Nervous System

A few years ago, I had a very annoying skin allergy. Wherever I scratched, my skin would bubble up: the condition is called Dermatographia, or “skin writing” in Latin.I could write…

5 Favorites to Quiet the Mind

Books, Music, Film, Health, Healing, Wellness, Meditation

Portals not Problem Solvers

As caregivers, we need to be more than problem solvers. We need to be portals to a larger possibility.

Audio Meditation for Connecting to the Heart

The heart holds our love, connection, joy, and forgiveness. It can also hold grief and anxiety. Sometimes what the heart feels is very different from what the mind thinks it wants.…

A Solo Journey for Radical Self-Care

A self-described mother martyr goes on a solo journey and rediscovers the value of her own joy.

What Really Happens When We Meditate

An interview with Daniel Goleman and Richard Davidson about their new book, Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body

Hello Sensation: An Audio Meditation for Befriending Your Body

This meditation is a practice of honoring and acknowledging the range of complex sensations and emotions that may be present at any given moment.

9 Things You Might Assume Are Your Fault, But Aren't

When blaming yourself for your own suffering becomes a core belief.

The Happiness Track: Is Mindfulness a Racket?

Is mindfulness really the panacea for today's stress?

The Empowered Empath

Try these three steps to get you healthy, grounded, and empowered to create a compassion revolution and save the world.

3 Simple Steps to Optimal Health

By re-training the muscles of your body and recovering the levels of oxygen your body requires, you’ll notice profound physiological and psychological changes.

For Better Group Therapy, Just Add Heat

How to create a "sweat therapy" sauna

Best Books of 2016

S&H’s Favorite Guides for Walking the Seeker’s Path

Book Giveaway: Visit bookmark.spiritualityhealth.com by January 31, 2017, and enter to win a collection of select titles.

Which Rest is Best?

A new study suggests cognitive fatigue can be relieved by playing “casual video games.”

Book Review: Fulfilled

How the Science of Spirituality Can Help You Live a Happier, More Meaningful Life

Are Dietary Supplements Really Necessary?

Most of us eat too much, and many of us eat healthy, so… Why take extra anything?

Why Are So Many Adults Today Haunted by Trauma?

Our political and social systems don't support fundamental human needs, says Gabor Mate—which affects our ability to deal with traumatic events.

Listening: The Supreme Skill

Try this practice from The Zen of You and Me and treat listening as an intentional meditation.

Kurapeak

Kurapeak is a dietary supplement which has been designed to help the lives of women of all ages to improve physical and mental wellbeing. Whether you are looking to reduce the effe…

Sound Healing: What’s Your Solfeggio Frequency?

Sound healing benefits include stress relief, better focus, and energy alignment. And it all depends on the frequency you’re listening to.

Meditation: The Key to Evenmindedness

Meditation is the key to attaining evenmindedness, helping you to cooperate with life willingly.

Groundhog Wisdom for Sleep

Groundhog behavior offers insight on restorative Z’s for busy humans.

Grief Yoga: 5 Stages to Transform Sorrow Into Strength

Grief yoga expert Paul Denniston reveals a compassionate practice for healing from grief.

How to Push the Emotional Reset Button in an Amygdala Override

Techniques for trying to calm down when your brain overreacts.

Staying Spiritually Connected on a Busy Schedule

The key to staying spiritually connected in the midst of a busy schedule, says actress and activist Torrey DeVitto, is embracing simplicity and constant exploration.

Winter Magick: 3 Balancing Rituals Using Snow

Snow’s dual energies of quietude and preparation make it excellent for rebalancing our energies.

Unclutter Your Mind With Journaling Power

Cluttered minds create cluttered lives.

Do You Need an Emotional Detox? Five Signs and Their Symptoms

Are you suffering from these emotional detox symptoms? It may be time to make a change.

Spiritual and Health Benefits of Candle Gazing

Candle gazing benefits your vision, cognitive function, yoga and meditation practices, and more.

Magic Meditation for Sleep: Safety and Protection

Visualize a circle of protection around your body. Sleep safe and sound.

Ayurvedic Spices to Ignite Your Digestion This Holiday Season

Be an at-home apothecary and avoid Vata aggravation with these Ayurveda-friendly spices for digestion.

Astrology Studies: An Introduction to Elemental Wisdom

Answer four quick questions to identify which of the classical elements are healthy or weak within you.

8 Ways to Make Naps Work for You

Before you hit the hay midday, consider these napping pitfalls and tips.

Have You Tried Mimicked Fasting?

Mindful mimicked fasting combines a novel formula of nutrients with deep spiritual connection.

Podcast: After Death Communication ... Don’t Be Afraid, You’re Not Alone

“I understood then that this was the point of the dream. That I was being shown this world as a guest, that my job was to witness, to validate its existence. Perhaps even report that I had seen it.”

Cultivating Resilient Relationships in Chronic Illness and Long-Term Caregiving

Giving and receiving care are both challenges, and caregivers can suffer from many ailments. Discover some tips for giving and receiving care with mindful intention.

How to Release Emotional Blocks With Color

Use a color therapy exercise to release pent-up and unhelpful emotions.

Oracle Cards for Beginners

Discover how they differ from tarot cards, how to choose the right oracle deck, and more.

The Language of Energetics

The goal of energetic herbalism is to enhance our terrain, which is our inner landscape, and to be in the flow.

Death Awareness: Wrestling, Reflecting, and Revising the Final Act

Practicing death awareness need not be morbid. It can help you live your values more fully and cherish your life.

6 Things in Your House That Could Be Triggering Stress

Clutter, chemicals, negative media, and more can unknowingly cause stress. The good news is there’s a lot you can do about it.

Chronic Pain, Spirituality, and the Ripple Effect

A nurse becomes a patient and finds spiritual renewal from an unexpected source.

What Are Soulmates Really?

You’ve heard of soulmates, but what does that truly mean for couples?

The Spiritual Meaning of Incontinence

How does the flow of energy connect to physical and spiritual leaks?

Enlightened Dog Training Tips

Enlightened dog training offers a peaceful approach to communicating with canines.

3 Essential Oil Blends to Boost Sensuality

Erotic, invigorating, and beautifying: Try these essential oils for sensuality.

Fast-Acting Female Libido Booster

How do female libido boosters work? If your libido has dwindled and that fire doesn’t seem to be coming back, then it’s time to do something about it.

Balance & Boost: 4 Ayurvedic Herbs for Immunity

Ayurveda is about balance and treating the whole body for optimal mental and physical health. Give yourself a boost with these four Ayurvedic herbs for immunity.

Balancing Your Life Calendar: Appointments & Disappointments

Kahlil Gibran said, “The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.” As we age, thinking about the relationship between joy and sorrow can help us deal with some of the heavier disappointments in life.

Film Review: Chasing the Present

Chasing the PresentDirected by Mark Waters 1091 FILMS HAVING STRUGGLED WITH addiction, loss, and a lifetime of crippling anxiety attacks, James Sebastiano decided to travel the …

Aware and Asleep

Take a dive into the lucid dream world and explore advice for new dreamers.

The Talking Tree


Shamanic practitioner (and emergency medic) Winter Ross met a sister in a wounded ponderosa pine.

Yoga for Caregivers

Caregivers need care too. Explore the best yoga-based solutions for soothing the caregiver’s heart, mind, and body.

Father’s Final Words Not the Last Word

Psychotherapist Kevin Anderson offers advice to S&H readers. “As professionally prepared as you were for your father’s dying process, there are no credentials or letters after our names that can fully prepare us for losing a loved one.”

Self-Care With Acupressure for Emotional Balance

“According to Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), emotions that aren’t properly processed become stored in the body—clogging up the flow of vital energy, known as qi, through the body’s invisible network of meridians (channels).”

8 Essential Oils for Yoga

The use of essential oils for yoga can assist in setting intentions for your practice and further connecting mind and body. Learn which oils are best for your needs.

Be Your Own Nurse in a Healing Crisis

A healing crisis brought on by a holistic health treatment is no cause for panic. Rest and replenish with these whole-body remedies.

Be Your Own Healing Crisis Guide

A healing crisis is any event in which you feel worse on your way to feeling better. Seeing your healing crisis as a nonlinear journey will help you arrive at the destination of improved health.

6 Refreshing Ways to Connect With the Earth

Forge a deeper connection with the world around you in six simple ways. Start with a DIY nature altar.

Hitting the Reset Button When Your Flow of Higher Energies Is Interrupted

Reset your connection to the flow of divine energies. “I began wondering about the numerous ways I lose my connection to the Ground of Being.”

What Nightcrawler Picking Taught Me About the Pursuit of Happiness

“Don’t put finding your happiness at the center of your searchlight. Center your life on giving people your best energy. Happiness will appear on the edge of the circle of your focus on bringing light to others.”

6 Ways to Stay Grounded During Uncertainty

Stay grounded (literally) through your bare foot-to-earth connection.

Teaching Shamanism at Atlantic University

“Welcome to the shamanic worldview in which we recognize that there are multiple dimensions and realities beyond the physical space-time continuum.”

Finding Home in the Moment

Psychotherapist Kevin Anderson answers questions from S&H readers. “I keep trying to figure out where I should move, but I feel stuck and unable to make a decision.”

What to Expect When You’re in Love With an Empath

Loving an empath—who may be more sensitive to confrontation, more introverted, and can go overboard trying to please—is about affirming their individuality as well as your own.

Naprapathy: The Best Manual Medicine You’ve Never Heard Of

Naprapathy is the manual manipulation of connective tissue.

Wisdom of the Desert Dwellers

A community of Christians once flourished in the Egyptian desert.

Find a Calling, Make It Work

You may find your calling at the place where your gifts intersect with other people’s needs.

Empaths & Animals: A Special Relationship

Authenticity, a minimal amount of emotional work, and the ability to gain trust are just some of the reasons empaths value their relationships with animals and with nature.

CBD and CBN for Sleep

Industry experts recommend combinations of cannabis products for better Z’s, including CBN for sleep.

Retrain, Regain, Renew

Aromatherapy may be able to help COVID-19 “long-haulers” recover their sense of smell.

Pacifica’s Vision: Psyche in the 21st Century

“Pacifica is re-imagining itself based on values of integration and inclusion that are woven throughout our various programs.”

Complicated Grief: What Happens When You Can’t Go On

Complicated grief is more than the intense, acute grief almost everyone experiences after someone dear to them dies. It is prolonged and all-consuming.

How Prayer Changes Your Brain

Prayer is changing your brain chemistry—and it’s no miracle.

How Hypervigilance to Pain Hurts

Unlock the fear-avoidance trap to step out of the cycle of suffering. Hypervigilance to pain can trap you in continued chronic pain.

The Art of the Lunch Break

Besides taking a lunch, holding meetings while walking and doing body scan meditation at your desk are two more examples of mindfully returning to the office.

Is Meditation Teacher Training Right for Me?

With interest in spirituality surging, the need for qualified meditation teachers has grown. Is meditation teacher training right for you?

The Essence of Forgiveness

Forgiveness is not so much an act as an attitude.

Form a Goddess Circle, Find Your Sacred Self

Maiden, Mother, or Crone, there’s a goddess circle for you.

Superpowering Mental Wellness

Sharon Blady views neurodiversity as a superpower. “I’ve been Geek Grrrl for as long as I can remember, and well before I used the term for reclamation and empowerment.”

Clink, Rustle, Clack, Swoosh: The Basics and Benefits of ASMR

ASMR calms and engages with materials that clink, rustle, clack, swoosh, brush, smoosh, and slurp.

Why People Don’t Meditate ... Even If They Want To

Why is it so hard to jumpstart a meditation practice even when you really want to? There are generally two reasons why people don’t meditate.

6 Tips to Support Change With Color Therapy

Colors have frequencies that influence mood, impact our energy field, and support us in developing different aspects of ourselves.

Somatofulness: Return to an Awakened Body

“Somatofulness connects us directly to the earth and nature, thus preserving them both.”

The Role of Reiki in a Healing Crisis

Reiki is a subtle yet powerful form of energy medicine. It can resolve a healing crisis—or may even bring one on.

5 Lessons For Living Your Best Life From a Philosophical Theologian

Paul Tillich is one of the greatest philosophical theologians you’ve probably never heard of.

To Breathe Perchance to Dream

Slow, deep, diaphragmatic—breathwork sounds, and is, so beneficial for treating insomnia. But they call it work for a reason.

4 Practices for Cultivating Feminine Magnetism

Are you feeling stiff, sluggish—as if the energy within you is in stasis? It may be time to reconnect with your intrinsic feminine magnetism.

Can Spiritual Sleep Help You Learn, Heal, and Reach Your Full Potential?

Through dream incubation, yoga nidra, or a general meditative practice, spiritual sleep can bring on creativity and help you problem-solve.

Dudley & Dean Evenson’s 7 Spiritually Uplifting Songs

Musical and life partners Dudley and Dean Evenson offer seven of their favorite songs to move body and soul.

Assuming the Whole Body Is Conscious Can Heal Puzzling Symptoms

What happens when you allow your whole body to have a conscious voice? “I have seen dramatic improvement in a variety of conditions when people begin assuming that the whole body has a form of consciousness that communicates about what’s going on in our lives.”

A Mystical Truth Hidden in “I Am Never Good Enough in My World”

Transform Self-denigration into Self-actualization by making some much-needed edits to the sentence “I am Never Good Enough in My World.”

9 Affirmations to Clear Your Fear and Embrace Daily Miracles

Consider a miracle as a “shift in perception, from fear to love.”

Off the Screen and Up to the Stars

Media task-switching is linked to increased anxiety, depression, and mental exhaustion. Try this simple, 30-second ritual to establish positive associations with tech breaks.

Chronic Breath-Holding and How to Let It Go

Poor ergonomics can impair breath, while anger, pain, and frustration stemming from hyperfocus on our computers can bring on bouts of chronic breath-holding.

Surviving the Pain of Pet Loss

It’s often said that “grief is love with nowhere to go.” Ignore voices telling you to move on, and instead find a place to put all the love you once showered on your pet when they were alive.

Stomach Pain and the Chakras

Stomach pain is connected to an unbalanced third chakra, located next to the stomach above the belly button.

Bathing With Quartz Crystals

Bathwater is an excellent conductor for the energy magnified by a variety of quartz crystals.

What Does It Mean to Be a True Empath?

Empathetic people's hearts go out to others. True empaths feel others’ happiness or sadness in their own body, which can lead to emotional overload.

6 Lesser-Known Ways to Beat Burnout

Are you burned out? It may feel insurmountable at times. The key is finding strategies that work for you. To start ... avoid numbing, feed your soul.

Is Your Brain Listening to Anxious Dragons?

“When you tame your Anxious Dragons you can overcome anxiety, panic, and irrational fears, so you can start feeling better and living the life you want.”

Are “Mental Dragons” Breathing Fire on Your Emotional Brain?

“When I teach my patients how to identify their inner dragons, they start to recognize what’s fueling their fears, emotional pain, and unhealthy behaviors.”

8 Ways to Live With a Chronic Illness

Don't just cope with chronic illness. Discover ways to let go, address limitations, and move forward while living with chronic illness.

Dr. Bruce Greyson Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal About Life and Beyond

What will you see on the precipice of death? Dr. Bruce Greyson explores what near-death experiences reveal about the afterlife in his book “After.”

Yoga for Sore Feet

Sore, achy feet affect your mood, not to mention cause pain to radiate to other areas of the body. Find relief for your feet by practicing yoga for sore feet.

Is It Time for a Robopet?

Robo-dog? Sounds straight out of a sci-fi movie. Technology has come a long way since the 1997 release of the Tamagotchi. Still, today robopets continue to bring comfort and cure loneliness.

Calm Down: 3 Ways to Activate Your Vagus Nerve

Your vagus nerve is your body's information highway. It helps your brain and body communicate, playing an important role in how you feel.

14 Strategies for Sleeping Better

Can't remember the last time you had a good night's sleep? It's time to take a more strategic approach to sleeping better.

Sat Bir Singh Khalsa, PhD

Sat Bir Singh Khalsa, PhD. is the Director of Yoga Research for the Yoga Alliance and the Kundalini Research Institute, a Research Associate at the Benson Henry Institute for Mind …

Pets, Their People, and Coping With the Pandemic

During the COVID-19 pandemic, an unlikely hero has emerged: pets. “In addition to helping us navigate an increasingly frightening and lonely world, our pets can also help us manage the interpersonal relationships inside our own walls.”

Finding Freedom in Forgiveness

The capacity to forgive reveals a soul that is free of anxiety, one that is mature and equal to the complexity of human interaction.

7 Wellness Trends for 2021

Frog venom, really? Well, here are some of the health and wellness trends that should be on your radar for 2021.

Sarah Wilson

Sarah Wilson is the author of the New York Times bestsellers First, We Make the Beast Beautiful: A New Journey Through Anxiety, which redefined the mental health genre, and I Quit …

How Unprecedented Times Can Impact Spiritual Health and Spirit Attachment

Keep yourself in the right mindset to avoid being vulnerable to Spirit Attachment during these uncertain times.

Podcast: Author Sarah Wilson on Reclaiming Your One Wild and Precious Life

Individualism and capitalism are simply not working. Author Sarah Wilson talks about the challenges we face as humans, such as climate change and racial injustice, and proposes healthier systems to heal a fractured world.

Increase Ojas to Strengthen Your Immune System

Incorporate Ayurvedic eating principles into your life to increase ojas and support your immune system.

Therese J. Borchard

Therese J. Borchard is a mental health writer and advocate. She is the founder of the online depression communities Project Hope & Beyond and Group Beyond Blue, and is the author o…

A Guide to Spiritual Companionship

A spiritual companion is much like a psychologist for the soul, there to support you on your spiritual path.

Visioning a Re-NEW-able Year

This year, turn to the first known resolution makers—the ancient Babylonians—for inspiration.

When You Finally Go on a Retreat ...

What to keep in mind—and what to steer clear of when deciding on a retreat.

Listen: Heal Your Pain

Your body is sending you a message—in the unfortunate language of pain.

Spiritual Radicals: A New Spirituality

These seven spiritual leaders represent a variety of perspectives, backgrounds, and traditions. They are creating change on the ground, touching lives, and helping to define the future of spirituality.

Vulnerability: A Practice for Receiving Support

Asking for help and receiving support is part of taking care of yourself. Don’t have shame!

Tapping Therapy: Reclaim Your Emotional Freedom

Isn’t it time to break out of your bondage? Tapping therapy allows you to quite literally tap into your critical issues and resolve them through a series of body tapping gestures.

Addressing Trauma Through Yoga Practice

Hala Khouri has been a yoga teacher for over 25 years. She is a therapist and somatic experiencing practitioner. She uses her practice to address trauma, stress, and anxiety on a spiritual and physical level.

10 Quick Journaling Power Prompts to Calm Your Mind

“Once your worries take over, it’s difficult to get back on track. ... When you face moments like these, turn to journaling to recenter yourself, assuage your fears, and calm your mind.”

3 Wise Men, 3 Wise Gift-Giving Tips

Deliver delight this year. Look to the Magi to inspire new gift-giving practices this holiday season.

Sarah Wilson on This One Wild and Precious Life

Sarah Wilson asks readers to “take an active role in fighting for what we love.”

What the Lunar Eclipse Means for Your Zodiac Sign

Discover how your zodiac sign is affected by the final lunar eclipse of the year.

Daydreams as a Tool for Problem-Solving

Daydreams can be the key to solving social problems, achieving goals, and harnessing creative breakthroughs.

Realigning Your Hormones Through Better Sleep

If you’ve been feeling off, a commitment to getting better sleep may be the first step toward restoring hormonal balances.

Yoga for SIBO

In addition to diet and medicine, yoga can help treat the overgrowth of bacteria in the small intestine.

Can’t Sleep? It Might Be Your Social Axiom

Addressing your worldview can jumpstart a feedback loop of satisfaction and better sleep.

Living in the Now Through Ritual

Let go of nostalgia and start living for today through ritual. "It is essential to our sense of belonging ... that we mark the moments of transition in our lives."

7 Essential Medicinal Mints You Can Grow and Use in Teas

Discover the medicinal mints you can easily grow in your own yard—and use to fight anxiety, insomnia, nausea, and more.

5 Steps to Harness Spiritual Vibration for Manifesting

The things you want all have a vibrational energy to them.

The Branches of Grief Yoga

Open your heart, tap into joy, and explore the transformative healing nature of Grief Yoga.

20 Affirmations for Empaths Who Feel the Pain of the World

Self-care reminder: Just because you feel it doesn’t mean you’re responsible for it.

Root & Ritual With Becca Piastrelli

Becca Piastrelli’s Root & Ritual explores ways for you to connect with your ancestors, the land, your community, and your Self through rituals, recipes, and ancestral wisdom.

Are You Blocked? Take This Chakra Quiz to Find Out

Answer eight chakra quiz questions to determine where there’s imbalance in your system and how you can realign.

A Letting Go Ritual for Couples

Expressing and releasing a specific resentment makes space for love in this letting go ritual for couples.

5 Risks of a Spiritual Path

Discover potential pitfalls for the spiritual seeker based on two decades of research.

Understanding Humans

Stephen Kiesling sits down with November/December 2021 cover person, scientist, and neurodiversity advocate, Camilla Pang.

Giving Experiences: 15+ Experiential Gifts for Loved Ones

Giving and receiving gifts can be a true joy. But accumulating more things can feel like a burden.

Book Review: Anchored

THE NERVOUS SYSTEM has a playbook for handling threats. When we are dysregulated, disconnected, or healing from trauma, our usual playbook becomes unreliable. We freeze and capitul…

The Spiritual Meaning of Money

Part of our spiritual inquiry into money requires being honest about what it means to us, how we act around it, and what we value.

Sick Sounds

Anthropophonies—soundscapes made by humans—might be making you sick.

5 Vibrational Healing Methods for Chronic Pain and Body Aches

Vibrational healing isn’t new, but it has recently become more mainstream.

14 Affirmations That Make Changing Your Habits Infinitely Easier

To create lasting change, you have to look at all layers of your lifestyle, including the routines and subconscious patterns and habits.

The Art of Lucid Living—Learning Death’s Secret

Steve Jobs understood Death’s Secret and was a master of Lucid Living.

How Do We Pray for Animals?

Interspecies healing practices include prayer circles and shawls.

Polyvagal Theory: The Stories We Inhabit

How do you inhabit the stories you tell yourself? Polyvagal Theory expert Deb Dana navigates you through the overwhelm of your dorsal and sympathetic stories into ventral safety.

Have You Tried Salt Cave Therapy?

Salt cave therapy is a growing trend that boasts benefits for the lungs and skin.

Ana Lilia

Ana Lilia is a certified breathwork teacher and healer leading thousands of people to intimately connect with their breath as a pathway for transformation. Ana channels her intuit…

What’s Your Vibrational Healing Style?

Is your style aromatherapy, sound healing, or one of the others? This spiritual vibration test will tell you.

Holding Death Close

“Holding death close serves as a continuous, gentle reminder that every moment I am alive is a special but limited opportunity.”

6 Tools to Defuse and Disable Suffering—the Buddhist Way

For one, cut through the feeling that any challenging circumstance is permanent.

Thistle Seed and This’ll Seed

Playing with language can be a powerful way to reframe burdensome thoughts.

Dancing to Songs Stuck in Your Head

“Our human emotional system, at times, is wired to lead us to embrace the three poisons without thinking of the consequences.”

Aging Into Awakening

Connie Zweig guides readers as they shift from role to soul.

6 Ways to Improve Gut Health With Vibrational Energy Healing

Vibrational energy healing has a direct correlation to our overall health and wellbeing, especially our gut health.

Sustainable Activism for Animal Lovers

Self-care tools for people who advocate for the more-than-human world.

Do a Sacred Home Cleanse Using Vibrational Energy Clearing

Just like our physical bodies, our homes can become cluttered with energy that doesn’t serve us.

Repeat After You: 3 Unexpected Benefits of Chanting

Chanting a mantra can counter dementia, help you sleep, and more.

Parasympathetic Stimulation: How to Improve Your Vagal Tone

Cold therapy, vocalization, and socializing are just three of six ways to improve vagal tone and reduce stress.

Befriending the Vagus Nerve

Explore the most accessible ways to achieve natural vagus nerve stimulation.

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“Moon River,” JT, and Me

Simple joys help us flow back to the best things in life. “Never have I so sensed in my patients and myself the necessity of cultivating awareness of simple joys.”

Your Nervous System Is at War—How to Negotiate Peace

Your nervous system has a sweet spot. Reach the optimal state of calm arousal and call a cease-fire on the war within you.

8 Sleep Gadgets So Unusual They Might Just Work

Is sleep eluding you? Some unexpected tools may help you get to sleep and stay asleep.

What Is Spiritual Direction?

The ancient practice of examen is one tool a spiritual director can use. The role of a spiritual director is to be a companion, a listener, a witness.

Preventing Sciatica

Sciatica can be debilitating. Preventing sciatica requires some life changes, but it’s worth it.

Yoga and Mental Health

Yoga and mental health are inextricably intertwined. Yoga helps promote mindfulness, healing from trauma, and boosts creativity.

16 Affirmations for Surrender and Trust

Stuck and disappointed? Affirmations for surrender and trust can help get you through.

What Does It Mean to Relax?

Feeling stuck in unhealthy patterns? You can find deeper rest and relaxation, ease anxiety, and recover from trauma through yoga Nidra practice.

Walking the Divine Fido

Praying to dog? Studies have shown prayer has a positive impact on mental and physical health and healing—regardless of who or what you pray to.

12 Affirmations for Speaking Your Truth

Heal your fifth chakra with confident, authentic communication and by speaking your truth.

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Sleep and Immunity: 6 Ways to Boost Your Body’s Immune System While You are Sleeping

Ward off infection and avoid illness by cranking up your body’s defense system all night long.

The Rest Story

The foundation of mental, physical, and spiritual health is rest. Four rest experts provide insight on sacred rest.

Emotions in Motion

Dance psychologist Peter Lovatt explains why letting the rhythm move you is a brilliant way to lift your mood.

Right Now, We’re All Dysregulated

Are you an ON person or an OFF person? Yoga teacher and somatic counselor Hala Khouri shares ideas for moving toward self-regulation.

How Pets Alleviate Touch Deprivation

Time to adopt a furry friend? Your four-legged friend’s company helps relieve touch deprivation and feelings of isolation.

Too Much Stuff?

Tired of all the JUNK? Become inspired by Benedictine simplicity. Look for new ways to keep your space less cluttered.

A Guided Tonglen Meditation

Feeling stuck in your own pain or helpless about the suffering in the world? Turn to the ancient practice of Tonglen to connect and heal.

Gut Medicine: 7 Quick Ways to Avoid or Soothe Unhappy Digestion

Drinking warm lemon water before meals is just one way to avoid digestion problems.

“Dog Mind” and the Cone of Mindfulness

Wearing a "cone of mindfulness" can help protect our spiritual and mental wellbeing during trying times.

“Why Not Begin There?”

A Zen priest and leading garden designer from Japan shares two reflections.

Logging Into Online Wellness

Learning can improve our quality of life—and the effect is twofold for courses on wellness and self-betterment.

Come Together

It’s a dilemma: How to find a spiritual community if you’re not attending religious services.

Balance Is as Close as Your Body’s Rhythm

“All of your biological subengines are interdependent; eating patterns affect sleeping patterns, sleeping and exercise patterns affect alertness and metabolic health, and so on.”

How to Be Happier—the Buddhist Way

Humans lean toward the negative, but we can overcome this tendency. Discover five Buddhism-inspired ways to be happier right now.

Missing Fido or Fluffy? Tips for Helping Kids Survive Pet Loss

Kids can experience psychological distress for up to three years after losing a pet. Animal Chaplain Sarah Bowen, author of Sacred Sendoffs, has six tips to help you companion your kids, grandkids, or friends of any age through animal loss.

7 Stress-Busting Adaptogens

Adaptogens are stress-busting herbs and mushrooms that can help the body find balance in the face of daily stress.

A Letting-Go/Calling-In Burn Ritual for the Full Flower Moon

Turn what’s holding you back to ash. Drink in the blossoming energy of the full Flower Moon.

12 Affirmations for Procrastinators

Affirmations for procrastinators allow you to make healthy shifts and minimize guilt or panic.

Science & Spirit: Moody Skin, Tiny Tech, and Genetic Mutations

Explore the powerful relationship between skin and mental health, dig into tiny technology that can change lives, and discover the future of cancer research.

Happy Days Ahead: Q&A With Gabrielle Bernstein

Gabrielle Bernstein discusses authentic happiness, the path to peace, and IFS therapy.

5 Ways to Practice Body Neutrality as You Age

Let go of the pressure to love your body. As you age, body neutrality helps you see your body as a resource whose value is constant.

Signs It’s Time for an Emotional Purge

Feeling overwhelmed by negativity? It may be time for an emotional purge.

A True Respite: The Retreat Costa Rica

It may sound trite to write that a location is magical—but this one is.

Where to Find a Spiritual Emergence Coach

Meditation, yoga, retreats, and intensives can accelerate growth but sometimes result in disorientation and an urgent need for radical change in work, relationships, and personal values. We can learn how to manage this within ourselves and to support others.

Stories That Connect

“We are united in the emotions that drive us into the beliefs that divide us.”

Can Watching Bear Cams Improve Wellbeing?

People expressed improved relaxation & stress reduction after watching bears at an Alaskan preserve.

5 Journaling Prompts & Affirmations for Chronic Pain

Managing chronic pain takes a multi-pronged approach. Affirmations and journaling prompts for chronic pain can help.

Where to Find Support When Awakening Gets Hard

On the path of awakening there can be periods of disorientation and intense emotion. Get resources for qualified support and learn how to effectively support others.

Medical Astrology: Connecting Stars, Planets, and Body Parts for Better Health

Medical astrology links planets to body parts. Your body’s strengths and weaknesses may be informed by your zodiac sign.

Is It Time to Reevaluate Your Religious Affiliation?

Being stuck in a community that stifles the spirit is debilitating.

Dr. Susan Sands on the Pleasures of Living in an Aging Body

“Not letting ourselves age is a way of not letting ourselves live.”

Spiritual Meaning of IBS

The spiritual meaning of IBS is about looking at imbalances in how we relate to our food and our emotions.

Protein for Mental Health

Eating lean protein and slow-release energy food helps keep your mood up and depression at bay.

Breathwork for the Sensual Self

Sensuality is an intimacy with one’s core being and desires. When we practice breathwork, we arouse and express our sensual self.

What’s in Jo Dunbar’s Herbalist Garden?

Jo Dunbar’s holistic approach combines herbal medicine with hypnotherapy, diagnostic tests, nutritional supplements, and dietary advice.

4 Exercises to Build Trust and Confidence in Your Intuition

Whether you lean clairvoyant, clairaudient, clairsentient, or claircognizant, you can strengthen your relationship with your intuition.

5 Emotional Cleansing Practices

Think of emotional cleansing as similar to the recycling process, the process of reusing something for the greater good.

What’s Strong With Me?

“What’s strong with me?” can turn down the frequency and intensity of comparing yourself with others.

5 Lessons From Lunar New Year to Support Sleep

Use these five lessons to start the Year of the Rabbit on the right foot by making sleep a priority and allowing an abundance of rest to hop through your front door.

Ready, Set. Go

“Life at its best is always fresh and unrepeatable.” Mark Nepo shows us how to balance preparation and emotional readiness.

How to Use Alchemy for Better Gut Health

Improve your digestion and overall health by tending to the quality of your digestive fire—using alchemy.

Reimagining the Language of Medicine

What would happen if you replaced a language of violence toward illness with a language of compassion and nurturance? An integrative MD explores.

Dive Into the Root of Your Illness With Ayurveda

With a little help from the ancient “science of life,” it’s possible to explore the root of your ailments, even when Western medicine hasn’t helped.

3 Ayurvedic Herbs for Nourishing Brain Health

Ayurvedic herbs have the potential to promote brain healing and prevent dementia—find out how.

5 Ayurvedic Herbs for Glowing Skin

Hoping to revamp your skincare routine with holistic alternatives? Explore these five Ayurvedic herbal remedies.

How to Eat Well Without Sacrificing Your Mental Health

Explore how one athlete learned to nourish herself after a life-threatening illness stopped her in her tracks.

Move for Recovery

Steven Washington, author of Recovering You, shares his recovery journey and how movement was the key to success.

Stress Doesn’t Have to Be Your New Normal

You can’t control your stressors, but you can change the way you respond to them.

5 Simple Ayurvedic Self-Care Tips

Ayurvedic self-care offers holistic, sustainable ways to nourish your body for the long term. These five tips will help you manage your life with more ease.

Matthew Ash McKernan Shows Us the Web of Wyrd

What is wyrd, and how can we understand its warp and weft to navigate life more skillfully? Therapist and author Matthew Ash McKernan shares wisdom.

Ayurvedic Remedies for Respiratory Disorders

Ayurveda offers us potent healing modalities for all kinds of respiratory conditions. Which of these are in your medicine cabinet?

How Food and Mood Are Connected

Explore how what we eat and how we feel are connected, and discover new tips for supporting your relationship with food.

A Goddess Ritual for Peace and Wellbeing

In times of global unrest and personal distress, call to the beloved Buddhist goddess Green Tara to help you find peace and ease.

4 Ways Color and Interior Design Improve Emotional Wellbeing

If positive affirmations aren’t doing the trick to lift your mood, consider working with new colors. An expert in color and interior design explains why and how.

How to Use Alchemy for Better Sleep

Use the ancient art of alchemy to transform wakefulness into a good night’s sleep—the process is easier (and less mystical) than you might think.

Making a Difference Through Applied Compassion

Feeling the urge to heal division in the world? Become an Ambassador of Compassion.

A Great Ancestor in the Making

Unblock enormous amounts of positive energy with a simple journey from past to future.

Re/Treat Yourself: Chasing Sunshine

Discover the delights of a 4,000-acre nature-filled retreat in Tecate, Mexico.

The Soul of Therapy: Back to the Present

A psychotherapist offers some wisdom for a reader experiencing the loneliness and stress of divorce.

10 Health Benefits of Meditation for Seniors

Explore how meditation can provide profound health benefits, especially for seniors.

Your Ayurvedic Guide to Menopause

Menopause can be a sacred time of life. Learn the Ayurvedic perspective on this transition.

5 Ayurvedic Tips for Thriving During the Holidays

Ayurvedic wisdom can help us have a healthier and happier holiday season—learn how with these five tips.

5 Ayurvedic Herbs to Help Navigate Impotence

Impotence can be frustrating and disempowering—explore potential solutions from an Ayurvedic perspective.

How to Use Alchemy to Navigate Chronic Pain

Alchemy, the ancient science and art of transformation, can show us how to transform pain into something much healthier.

5 Ways to Nourish Yourself After a Night of Insomnia

Couldn’t get to sleep last night? Here are five ways to have a better day today, and get a better night’s sleep tonight.

Using Active Dreamwork to Heal from Trauma

Stuck in a loop of recurring nightmares? Resolve them by healing at the source the roots of the trauma that may be generating them.

5 Yoga Poses for Better Digestion

Try these five yoga poses to help combat indigestion and build agni.

What Goddess Vahanas Teach Us About Personal Power

The animal companions of three Hindu goddesses teach us valuable lessons about strength, abundance, and wisdom.

Roadside Assistance: Becoming Enlightened

Rabbi Rami Shapiro answers pressing questions on America, immortality, and enlightenment as a goal.

The Hidden Cost of Domestication

Animal trainer Ren Hurst lost everything when she discovered a new way of being with animals. What she gained made the loss worthwhile.

3 Tips to Sneak More Rest Into Your Day This Fall (Even If You Have a Lot Going On)

Now matter how much time you have, these strategies will help you feel more rested and energized all season long.

Finding Wisdom Within: A Profile of Yung Pueblo

Explore what it means to truly cultivate wisdom in an interview with author and poet Yung Pueblo.

4 Reasons Food Rules Cause Gut Upset

You are doing all the "right" things with your diet... but your stomach is constantly upset. Food rules may be causing the problem.

What Is an Anthroposophic Diet?

An anthroposophic diet can take many forms, but there are certain general guidelines to follow.

The Magic of Tea Before Meditation

Want to meditate more often and with more focus? Try tea.

Self-Care is Not an Option for Caregivers

An adapted excerpt from Courage for Caregivers.

How to Honor the New Moon in Virgo

The new moon in Virgo arrives this week—do we have the flexibility to move with new tasks and changes as they arise?

What Is Depth Hypnosis?

Depth Hypnosis is more than traditional therapy. Explore how this healing modality is both modern and inspired by the ancient.

Lessons From Extreme Rituals: An Interview With Dimitris Xygalatas, PhD

Why do so many ordinary people regularly participate in painful religious rites? Dr. Dimitris Xygalatas explores the answer.

Finish the Stress Cycle for Better Sleep

A professional sleep coach describes how to let your body know that it’s time for rest.

Breath Prayer: An Ancient Practice for Today

Utilize an ancient practice to calm the mind and re-center yourself on truth.

7 Reasons Why You Resist Meditation (and What to Do About Them)

Feeling averse to meditation? One of these seven reasons may be the explanation.

15 Inner Child Journaling Prompts to Spark Healing

Need help caring for yourself? You might benefit from inner child journaling.

Do You Talk to Yourself?

Have you tried changing the narrative inside your head? Talking to yourself may just be a healing practice—if you do it right.

How to Use Supplements for Brain Health

A pharmacist offers her advice on how to skillfully utilize supplements to support brain health.

How to Find Inner Peace—the Buddhist Way

Seeking peace but don’t know where to find it? These Buddhist methods can help.

Why We Shouldn’t Treat Ayurvedic Herbs Like Candy

Herbal supplements can be dangerous if taken without consulting a skilled practitioner. Here’s how to wisely work with Ayurvedic herbs while honoring Ayurvedic wisdom.

Spiritual Self-Care for Lung Season

Nourish your lungs this fall and winter by keeping warm, processing grief, and releasing emotions that aren't helpful anymore.

3 DIY Crystal Mists to Calm, Boost, and Manifest

Create adaptogenic, crystal-infused face and body mists to revitalize and boost balance.

Capturing Lunar Energy Through Affirmations

Step one: Discover how to write affirmations that work for you. Step two: Combine your affirmations practice with the lunar cycle.

5 Best Crystals for Focus

Can’t concentrate? Wear, carry, or display fluorite and other crystals for focus.

Self-Consent: A Self-Love Practice

Learn to listen to your internal “yes” and “no” signals. Teach your body that what you want matters.

My Inner Child Work Isn’t Working. Now What?

When your inner child work feels stuck, that could mean huge progress is around the corner.

When a Tension Gets Attention

Flummoxed by self-esteem issues? Give up on self-esteem and move to Self-awareness.

6 Ways to Shift From Believing to Knowing

Do you know how to trust your inner wisdom? These six steps show you how.

How Rituals Rewire Your Brain

While rituals may define us, we have a hard time defining them. Dig into the science of ritual.

Mindfulness Over Merlot

It’s not about willpower. Tools like meditation can help in recovery from alcohol use disorder.

Journaling Out Loud

Distracted by worrying, anxious, comparing thoughts? Give voice to them. Then give voice to a response to them.

Settle the Nervous System: A Meditation for Calm and Self-Compassion

Soothe yourself from the inside out with this gentle meditation.

Embracing Wisdom From Abuelas

Learn a few favorite strange-but-sage beliefs, traditions, and rituals from abuelas.

Quiz: What’s Your Nourishment Style?

Find your unique nourishment style, based on the five elements and Traditional Chinese Medicine.

3 Crystals for Gut Health

Discover how to use three powerful crystals for gut health: citrine, carnelian, and amethyst.

What Is Freedom?

Connect with the true nature of liberation through this contemplation on freedom.

4 Ways to Cleanse Post-Vacation Negative Energy

Not feeling quite right after a get-together? Cleanse the bad energy.

Jennifer Tucker

Jenn Tucker is author of Breath as Prayer: Calm Your Anxiety, Focus Your Mind, and Renew Your Soul. Learn more at breathasprayer.com.

Healing the Instrument of Your Voice

Voice healing requires a deep dive into who we are, but the results are extraordinary.

Why Ditching Alcohol Could Lead to a Happier Menopause

Learn why mixing alcohol and menopause can be a recipe for unease.

Circadian Rhythms: How to Light Your Way to Better Sleep

Aligning your daily routine with the rhythm of day and night can drastically improve your sleep.

4 Types of Agni (Digestion), According to Ayurveda

Ayurveda has four descriptors for the varied kinds of digestive fire. Which one do you relate to the most?

A Guide to Overcoming Guilt About Animal Loss

Feeling the loss of a beloved animal companion and conflicted about their passing? Eight animal chaplains offer their wisdom.

Intuitive Eating for Nervous System Health

A board-certified nutritionist, herbalist, and intuitive eating coach offers her best tips to practice intuitive eating in a way that nourishes your nervous system.

3 Crystals for Graceful Aging

Healing crystals can support your body, mind, and spirit as you age. Learn which three crystals can help you age with grace and enjoy a grounding crystal ritual.

Heal Your Inner Child with Visual Art

One writer’s experience in an unconventional art class opened healing pathways for her inner child. Learn how your inner child can benefit from visual art too.

How to Speak the Language of Chronic Illness or Injury

When the medical system fails to heal chronic illness or chronic pain, we may find solace in a spiritual understanding of our lived experience.

Why We Are Driven to Connect

We can't deny the real public health crisis that loneliness presents. Artist and spiritual revolutionary Sah D'Simone shares the power of connection.

Washing Our Worries Away Through Dream Work

Explore how one author's experience with dream interpretation helped her find peace during pregnancy.

8 Ayurvedic Tips for Aging Gracefully

The western medical model would have us believe that aging is a curse, while Ayurveda holds a more holistic, optimistic perspective. These eight tips can support healthy aging for all.

Questioning: A Time-Honored Quaker Tradition

Explore how the Quaker practice of queries allows us to mindfully pause from easy information, and encourages us to process our spiritual experiences more deeply.

Leading Spiritual Health in the Workplace: The Time Has Come

Following COVID, workplaces are moving from solely focusing on physical health to embracing mental health. The next move? Spiritual health.

5 Yoga Poses for Lowering Inflammation

Yoga can be a powerful aid to people experiencing aches and swelling in the body. Try these five yoga poses to lower inflammation.

Rebecca Fogg on Finding Beauty Amidst Trauma

How can we learn from our traumatic experiences, and what can be gleaned from the process of recovery? Author Rebecca Fogg shares.

Why Dance Makes Brains Better

Explore how an effort to help people with Parkinson’s disease now helps everyone keep a healthier brain, mind, and body.

Why—Still—the Sound of Silence?

Three healing professionals—Amza Ali, MD, Justin Grant, Phd, and Mary-Elizabeth Gifford—consider the high costs of not speaking up for palliative care with psychedelics.

Crisis and Transformation

Suzanne Mariott’s beautiful memoir on caregiving, published this month, began taking shape years ago with conversations at a S+H writer’s workshop.

How Kabbalah Can Support Your Mental Health Journey

Explore how this ancient Jewish mystical tradition can support you on your journey to complete wellness.

3 Causes of Migraines (and Holistic Tips to Manage Them)

Traditional treatments not cutting it for migraine management? Explore the root of migraines and some potential options for support.

11 Yoga Poses for Incontinence

Experiencing urinary leakage or an overactive bladder? Consider adding any of these yoga poses to your practice to encourage pelvic floor strength.

Balance Your Chakras With 7 Easy Yoga Poses and Aromatherapy

Explore the seven yoga poses and corresponding aromatherapy options to align your chakras.

30 Soothing Bedtime Mantras for Better Sleep

Use one of these thirty affirmations to sink into a deep, restful sleep tonight.

May My Daughter Know God Our Mother

One author offers a feminist prayer for her daughter to know God as divinely feminine.

A Surgeon's Long Night's Journey Into PTSD

A neurosurgeon experiences PTSD after being intubated in his own ICU. His journey through that one long night holds lessons for us all.

Become a Connoisseur of Time

What we really want is to experience our lives in ever-richer ways. And that means getting off the clock. Here, a master outlines how to do just that.

Dr. Michael Amster Explains the Power of Awe

A chronic pain specialist and meditation teacher shows us how to simplify mindfulness and harness the healing ability of awe.

How to Practice Individuation

Have you ever felt like your personality is not your own, but rather an amalgamation of inherited patterns? It may be time to try individuation.

5 Movement Practices for Menopause

During menopause, the body’s needs change. Try these five options for different ways to move the body during this transition.

A Guide to Using Ayurveda for Stress Relief

Whether you’re a Vata, Pitta, or Kapha, using Ayurveda for stress relief can help you feel your best.

25 Healing Self-Love Affirmations

Self-love doesn’t always come easy, but affirmations can help. “I love who I am becoming and embrace all that I am” is just one of these 25 self-love affirmations.

4 Ways to Renew Your Relationship to Food in Menopause

Menopause brings with it immense change and vulnerability, making it the perfect time to develop a more supportive relationship with food.

8 Ayurvedic Tips to Support the Nervous System

After periods of stress and deep anxiety, our nervous systems need nourishment. See if one of these eight Ayurvedic methods can support you.

Embracing Your Inner Child

Taking care of your inner child can be daunting, but the practice has profound ripple effects. Parenting expert Dr. Becky Kennedy’s new book explains how the healing starts.

Dr. Will Cole on Healing Our Gut Feelings

We spoke with functional medicine practitioner Dr. Will Cole on his new book, Gut Feelings.

Friedemann Schaub, MD, Ph.D

Dr. Friedemann, a physician with a Ph.D. in molecular biology, left his career in allopathic medicine to pursue his passion of helping people overcome fear and anxiety without medi…

Breaking the Cycle of Powerlessness

A physician and personal development coach shows us how to overcome an overworked “inner protector” and reclaim our essential power.

Diving Deep Into Darkness

Zen Buddhist priest Osho Zenju Earthlyn Manuel shares her wisdom on leaning into life’s many difficulties and invites us to explore our relationships to darkness and blackness as we know them.

Nourishing Exhausted Adrenals, the Ayurvedic Way

Adrenal fatigue can sap us of energy, leave our minds foggy, and take over our lives. Ayurveda offers the opportunity for holistic support.

45 Days Without Television: A Journey of Self-Discovery and Liberation

Explore how one healer revitalized her life after a break from television, social media, and distraction.

Featured Artist: Pete Sandker

S+H lead digital editor Brenna Lilly spoke to artist Pete Sandker about walks in the woods, childhood inspiration, and the following call of art. Find Pete’s art throughout the issue.

Tarot Life Lessons: Living Wisdom From the Major Arcana

Learn what wisdom the High Priestess tarot card has for you.

6 Common Meditation Myths (and Their Solutions)

A somatics coach and meditation instructor debunks six myths about why you feel you can’t meditate. What's holding you back?

Dancing With the Soulful Capacities

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Neha Sangwan, MD

Neha Sangwan, MD, CEO and founder of Intuitive Intelligence, is an internal medicine physician, international speaker, and corporate communication expert. Her private practice and …

Founder of Good Grief Network LaUra Schmidt on Climate Trauma and Grief

We spoke with author LaUra Schmidt about climate grief, healing personal trauma, and how spirituality and climate awareness are connected.

5 Health Benefits of Stargazing

Have you looked up at the cosmos lately? Learn all about the health benefits of stargazing.

3 Strategies to Achieve Peak States

Peak states are life’s greatest moments of flow, connectedness, and bliss. Here are three ways to access peak states regularly to feel your best.

How to Practice Compassion—the Buddhist Way

Buddhism offers deep wisdom to help us practice compassion every day, both towards ourselves and others. Try these five tools to develop greater compassion.

Attraction Is Our Wounds Trying to Heal

When we are attracted to unhealed people, it’s often because of unhealed wounds within ourselves. Learn more about working with intuition to unravel conditioning in relationships.

Fighting Societal Affective Disorder

After a conversation with a seasonal affective disorder expert, Rabbi Rami ponders the affliction of societal affective disorder.

5 Yoga Poses for Menopause

Yoga can help support menopause no matter your experience. Explore the three different kinds of menopause (according to Ayurveda) and learn how to manage them with yoga.

Eden Hemp Flower Extract in Organic Hemp Seed Oil—Pure & Purifying

Eden Hemp Flower Extract in Organic Hemp Seed Oil—outdoor grown from organic, non-GMO seed. Broad spectrum—0% THC.

Your Guide to Movement Meditation

Seated meditation difficult for you? Consider shifting your focus to a movement mediation practice.

How Mothers Can Reclaim Their Birth Stories

Discover empowering insights and actionable advice from a birth story expert on reclaiming your unique birthing experience.

Addressing the State of Mental Health With the Power of Kabbalah

Kabbalah can help support the mental health journey—learn more about the process.

Living New Questions

Explore ways to shift the self-judging questions you're asking yourself into more compassionate ones that can help support healing.

The Dangers of the Law of Attraction

The Law of Attraction empowers people to think more positively, but at what cost? Explore the complexities of the Law of Attraction.

The True Cost of Bottling Up Your Anger

Anger itself is not an evil emotion, but when it’s bottled up, it can cause severe distress and disease. A holistic perspective on rage can help you balance your emotional scales.

10 Benefits of Nose Breathing (and How to Do It)

Learn more about the benefits of nose breathing for your health—it might just change your life.

Celebrating Rose as an Aphrodisiac

Rose can provide deep healing to the heart and support you on your sensual journey. Learn how one herbalist works with rose for enhanced sensuality and sexuality.

Marma Massage for Daily Self-Care

Utilize this gentle, soothing Ayurvedic practice when you need an afternoon pick-me-up, or when you’re experiencing stressful situations.

Struggling to Relax? Try Softening Instead

Does a yoga instructor’s cue of “just relax” cause you to tense up even more? Experiment with the act of softening.

The Spiritual Meaning of Weight Changes

Weight loss or gain can indicate big changes in our lives. Explore the spiritual meaning of weight changes.

The Wisdom of Hesitation

Ever caught yourself waiting before making a decision, but not knowing why? Explore how hesitation can be a meaningful manifestation of intuition.

How Meditation Can Help Combat Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)

A seasonal affective disorder expert and light therapy pioneer shares how mindfulness can strongly support other treatments for SAD.

Are You Called to Be an Ambassador of Compassion?

Follow your calling towards compassion with an innovative program from Stanford University.

How Embodiment Heightens Sexual Pleasure

Explore how mindfulness and embodiment can increase our access to pleasure.

The Key to a Good Night's Sleep

Explore how one app is helping people fall asleep each and every night with their library of soothing sleep tracks.

Book Review: How to Live in a Chaotic Climate

The first few pages of How to Live in a Chaotic Climate may seem ominous: You’ll find the words funeral, uncertainty, and grieve in the Table of Contents. Though these words might …

The Enlightenment Lab

Harvard-trained brain surgeon Allan Hamilton, MD, offers eight top lessons from his Zen Lab: working with horses.

How Happy Brains Respond to Negative Things

New research provides a whole new understanding of the brain's amygdala—and suggests that happy people take the bad with the good.

Our Top 10 Apps for Health & Wellness

Pull out your smartphone and get ready to download these healthy tools.

Mind Hacking

The best way to achieve inner peace is to treat your brain as a computer, according to entrepreneurial coder Sir John Hargrave.

Deep Listening

Dr. Neha Sangwan and writer and coach Jackee Holder say deep listening is the path to wellness

The Happiness Track: Are We Really Worlds Apart?

New research shows men and women aren't so different after all

How Fats Help You Stay Lean, Plus 9 Other Need-To-Know Fat Facts

Confused about whether fat is good or bad for you? Here’s the scoop.

Can Ballet Teach Wisdom?

A new study suggests that classical ballet might lead to increased wisdom in much the same way as meditation does.

The Benefits Of Fish Oil

When a proper balance of omega-6s to omega-3s is achieved, both your body and mind both reap a number of benefits.

Infertility Solutions

Research shows that adding mind/body techniques to treatment options can increase the odds of conception.

The Crazy Way Complaining Alters Your Brain

I’m sitting at my favorite local diner on a warm and sunny Saturday in February, with my boyfriend across from me—so many things to be grateful for. Only, I’m starving. One-by-one,…

14 Affirmations for Protection from a Negative Person

Know someone who’s allergic to optimism? These affirmations can provide an emotional shield when you’re with them.

Breathing Through Grief to Joy

A yoga teacher trainee experiences Max Strom’s breath work

If You Really Want to Be Heard, Shut Up…

…And recognize the real struggle with your partner is to hear

5 Tips if You Feel "Behind" in Life

When you feel like you’re falling behind in life, here are five things to refocus your attitude and get back on track.

Blackout Poetry: Creation Through Reduction

Can’t bear to put pen to paper? Start with a page that’s full of words instead of one that’s devoid of them.

10 Ways Pets Improve Mental Health

In their emotionally connected presence, pets can be a powerful ally for optimal mental health.

Why We’re So Emotional When We’re Tired

A study identifies exactly why we get so emotional when we have been burning the candle at both ends.

How to Meditate in a Minute

An MBA turned to meditation—and turned the process upside down.

Emotional Hygiene

An Interview with Daniel Goleman

And He Never Looked Back

As a baby, Matthew fell headfirst from our second story, crashed his skull through his brain and suffered a devastating traumatic brain injury. And while he became a “miracle child…

The Process of a Miracle Cure

Until my cancer diagnosis, I’d never been ill. I was terrified and nothing was helping me conquer the fear. Initially, I felt a traumatic paralysis, the fast-breathing, huddled fea…

Training Your Brain with Tea

To improve brain health, look no further than a cup of tea.

How Spirituality Affects the Physical, Mental and Social Well-being of People Going through Cancer

Spirituality and religiousness play a key role in the health and well-being of cancer patients.

Fight Depression With Fish

Depression is a leading cause of poor health, affecting an estimated 350 million people worldwide. In the U.S., nearly 7 percent of the population has had at least one major depres…

The Five Elements Quiz

Excerpt from Decorating With the Five Elements of Feng Shui

The Pendulum of Desire and Discipline

An excerpt from Sarahjoy Marsh's Hunger, Hope, and Healing

5 Questions for Emma Seppälä

Researcher (and new S&H columnist) Emma Seppala, unpacks the latest studies on happiness and offers a new way forward in her new book The Happiness Track: How to Apply the Scie…

Finding Balance for Fertility

Holistic nutritionist Nicole Granato overcame polycystic ovary syndrome without drugs. She shares her story, and tips for other women.

79 Quotes on Inner and Outer Peace

“We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.” —Martin Luther King Jr.

The Beautiful Superfood: Pearl

Did you know you can eat pearls for their various health benefits including skin and bone health, as well as cell renewal?

Tea for What Ails You

How to use herbal teas to treat common health maladies and get back on the path to wellness. (An S&H classic)

4 Signs You Might Have Damaged Your Metabolism

Discover the symptoms of a damaged or broken metabolism.

Get Unstuck

We live in stories—all of us, all of the time. This is a story about breaking through writer’s block and the start of a focused, passionate, and productive period

6 Meditations For Personal Transformation

“While personal transformation may not be the goal for everyone, I can’t help but think so many people limit themselves.”

The Art of Traveling Alone

Tips on mastering the solo journey

Strengthen Your Bond in Nature

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley. —Theodore Roethke For many of us, overwhelming stress sends us straight into the arms of Mother N…

The Week I Burned My Ego

A life-changing adventure on what’s called Path of Love

5 Questions for Emeran Mayer

1. As the science is emerging on the mind-gut connection, what do you believe is the most significant discovery?The most important realization is to view the mind-brain-gut microbi…

8 Ways to Start Your Day With Intention

Beep. Beep. Beep. Grab coffee. Dash out door. Adrenaline blaring, mind already awhirl, we launch ourselves out like cannonballs—scattershot, hurling, into the world. Now, is that a…

The Ultimate Guide to Caffeine: Black Tea vs. Coffee

We decided to investigate the health properties of both coffee and black tea to see how they compare in aspects beyond simply caffeine count and taste.

My Recovery From Nighttime Bingeing

Pretty much every night, for 46 years, I woke up in a semi-hypnotic state and ravaged for food …

7 Reasons Why You Need Prebiotics

Because the health of our gut is closely tied to many other bodily functions, prebiotics and probiotics together are important for battling inflammation and lowering overall disease risk.

Making Belief in Mary

We humans come to believe what we practice, so what we choose to practice is critical. Praying the rosary may be the best practice of all.

How Breathing Helped Me to Heal

Through my stillness in asana class and in meditation, I learned that breathing slowly unleashed my inner poetry.

Look At Me, Look At You

One way to rewire your experience of yourself and with other people is by paying close attention to eye gaze and its importance to your relationships.

12 Affirmations for Peace of Mind

Affirmations for peace of mind that go beyond “serenity now.”

The Science Of Touch

Scientists now know the mechanism behind the sensation of touch.

Get Zen Fast: Reflexology You Can Do From Your Desk

Focus, revive, and energize yourself from your midday slump with these seven reflexology points.

Paradise in a Pill?

On a bleak winter night in the suburbs, eight Tibetan monks wearing sandals and maroon robes shuffled out across the ecru-colored stage of the local recital hall. They paused for a…

Caffeine: The Addiction We Share … and Don’t Talk About

Is it time we admit our collective addiction to caffeine? Explore how caffeine affects us and why it became so wildly popular.

The Five Fingers of Touch

Understanding your partner’s desires for touch is a key to restoring intimacy

Mindfulness Therapy Kicked My Autoimmune Disease to the Curb

How I turned my life around by changing my way of thinking.

23 Ways to De-Stress in 5 Minutes or Less

Here are almost two dozen proven ways to chill out in no time at all, whether you’re at home, at work, or on the move.

A Boy, His Dog, and Their Heart-to-Heart Connection

Energy from one heart can make a real connection with another…and spread love in surprising ways.

Fall Sick Mindfully

Observe the experience of your depression and learn it's language

The Building Blocks of Calm

I remember my mother saying, “It’s a sin to worry.” When pressed to explain what she meant, she would often respond, “It’s all in God’s hands.” I think my mother used these sayings…

Letting Go of “Letting Go”

The art of moving into the peaceful state of Letgo.

Is My Job Absolutely Wrong for Me?

5 Questions to Ask Yourself

Ignite Your Inner Fire: 25 Inspiring Intentions

Life is a miraculous gift. Yet, as many of us move through time, we seem to have forgotten.We’ve grown weary, disconnected, distracted or detached. We’ve lost our connection with o…

Recipes for Good Health

Hippocrates said, “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” Ready to take the ancient Greek physician’s advice? These five new cookbooks will help.

Holding Fast

Long practiced to purify body and mind, the discipline of fasting finds new relevance in modern research 
that points to powerful benefits to abstaining from food.

4 Ways to Focus Your Attention

It’s hard to focus when there’s so much stimuli competing for our attention every second. These tricks can help.

34 Affirmations for Healthy Living

Try positive self-talk to eat better, feel stronger, and rejuvenate your body.

Divine Brine for the Dis-Ease of...

The Comparative MindComparing is great for prices at the grocery store, but when we start treating the unique and sacred story of our own life that way, we always invite suffering.…

Dr. Su Ravindran Talks About Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy

Many of us are well aware of what mindfulness is and the health and holistic benefits it provides. Those who practice mindfulness meditation, for example, understand personally how…

5 Tips for Better Self-Talk

Become your own source of calm and encouragement

How to Get Comfortable with the Uncomfortable

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Why Worry? Find Meaning!

Happiness is for takers. Meaning is for givers. Guess who feels better?

How to Give to Others Without Burning Out

Research suggests that self-care can reduce stress and exhaustion—if we know how to practice it.

Rabbi Rami: As a fundamentalist Christian, am I safe from Muslims?

Question: I consider myself a fundamentalist Christian, and I fear Muslims coming to America. Is Islam compatible with American values?Rabbi Rami: If by “Islam” you mean fundamenta…

Happily Eating After ...

The best foods for life’s challenging healing moments.

Five Science-Backed Strategies to Build Resilience

When the road gets rocky, what do you do?

The Happiness Track: Creating an Inbox Meditation

Cognitive overload is a term psychologists use when referring to dealing with too much information or too many tasks. Such overload can impair our memory and decision making, and c…

Does Your Personality Predict Your Happiness?

According to a new study, the relationship between happiness and personality is more complex than we thought.

Balance the Doshas and Build your Senses with Ayurveda

At-home treatments deliver fast results for elemental imbalance.

What We Still Don’t Know about Mindfulness Meditation

Despite the hype, researchers are still exploring the benefits of meditation and how much practice we need to achieve them.

How to Break the Spell of Fear

When you take control, you break fear’s spell. The concept is simple, but is difficult to accomplish because fear is the ultimate enabler. I saw that clearly when I went blind.

The Free-Range Brain

Brain imaging studies help us understand different forms of thought patterns.

5 Strategies for a Caregiver’s Survival

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How To Meditate In Space

Why architecture influences mood, emotion, and experience.

Book Review: The Path of Modern Yoga

Through the stories of eleven key figures, ranging from Indian yogis to an American-born journalist, author Elliott Goldberg engagingly recounts the path of modern yoga. The approa…

Eye Gazing: See Your Soul Shine

Excerpts from Yoga Beyond the Mat by Alanna Kaivalya

How Not to Stew

5 ways to stop stewing, and let go of minor offenses.

Reharmonizing the Body’s Built-In Energy Network

Marma Treatments at an Ayurvedic Retreat Center

Using Ayurvedic Mudras for Energy, Relaxation, and Focus

Explore the five movements of prana with simple hand gestures.

The Mechanics of Emotional Contagion: Who Affects Whom?

An excerpt from How the Art of Medicine Makes the Science More Effective: Becoming the Medicine We Practice

20 Morning Affirmations for Clarity, Purpose, and Joy

Kick-start your day with intention and positivity with these empowering morning affirmations.

15 Affirmations for When Things Don’t Go As Expected

When your expectations are dashed, try these affirmations.

At the Heart of Happiness

An excerpt from The Dalai Lama’s Big Book of Happiness

Winter Practices To Support Your Inward Journey

This next month can be fertile ground for renewal of spirit and for clarity of mind and heart.

Learning to Bloom Where I Am Planted

How I turned from the question of what I wanted from life to what life wants from me

The Awakening of an Elixir Goddess

Discovering ancient, healthy, alternative highs for an alcohol-soaked society

Float Tank Into Happiness

Submerge yourself into complete bliss.

16 Mindful Eating Affirmations

Guide yourself to a healthier relationship with food using affirmations like: “With each bite, I feel more energized.”

The Truth About Herbal "Tea"

How do herbal teas differ from tisanes? Are they really even tea?

Guided Meditation: Three-Step Reboot

Excerpted from Siddhartha’s Brain by James Kingsland

Summertime, and the Sitting Is Easy…

If emptying your mind feels like work, try this.

Best Essential Oils for Peace & Healing

Aromatherapy Pioneers Share Their Favorite Scents

Try This Mantra: So What? So Hum.

Learning the stress-relieving Sudarshan Kriya from Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

6 Ways to Stop Arguing and Start Listening

Explore ways to lay down the swords and work on our listening skills when faced with a potential argument.

Healing Touch—Stat!

Dr. Mark Rosenberg brings holistic medicine to the ER.

The Beautiful Sound of Relaxation and Energy

A didgeridoo concert reveals the instrument’s powers to reduce stress, blood pressure, and pain and promote an intense feeling of peace and wellbeing.

Fall Seven Times, Stand Up Taller

Two important new books on a revolution in thinking about resilience

Blossoming After Dark

Create a twilight garden for a tranquil, outdoor meditative space.

Prayer is Good Medicine

From the archive: Selected stories from the past 20 years.

The body benefits from spiritual practice.

Banishing the Binge

“A new study published this spring in the Journal of Eating Disorders took it one step further, recommending that binge eating be tackled as a public health issue, similar to the way seatbelt campaigns, water fluoridation and anti-smoking programs were successfully implemented to improve the wellbeing of the whole population.”

Healing with Reiki in Hospitals

The healing art of reiki is finding a surprising new home—high-tech Western hospitals.

The Brain Benefits of Dreaming

What happens to our brain when we sleep?

How Childhood Trauma Affects Adult Health

Do the aftereffects of traumatic events we suffered as children follow us into adulthood in a physical way? Research about Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) proves that enormous…

A Little Light Overcomes Much Darkness: Seeking Good Points

Adapted from Changing the World from the Inside Out

Talk Therapy Changes the Brain

Cognitive behavior therapy literally changes connections in the brain.

5 Work-Life Mistakes Everyone is Making

Here are five mistakes people make when it comes to setting work-life boundaries, and how to fix them.

Embrace Your Inner Slacker

Here are four ways to slack off for more creativity.

What’s a Change Club?

Take a look at the concept of a Change Club. It might inspire you to start your own.

Imagine Yourself Happy

Imagery training can boost everyday wellbeing, a new study shows.

7 Reasons to Go Booze-Free For a Week

Seven inspiring reasons to take a break from alcohol—one for each day of the week of abstinence.

Feeling Just a Little Better

A simple practice for positive thinking.

Finally Stop Ruminating

You can't control what you think, but you can control how you respond to what you think.

The 3 Ways People Manage Emotions

Strategies tend to fall within set groupings. Which one do you use?

Tai Chi Battles Depression

Three months of practicing the Chinese martial art of tai chi led to significantly reduced symptoms of depression in Chinese-Americans.

The Discussion: How Can I Pray Better?

And should better prayer even be a goal?

The Effects of Yoga Nidra on the Brain

Yoga nidra affects the brain by shifting brain waves into a beneficial state of regeneration and repair.

What My Puppy Teaches Me

Puppies can teach us a lot about how to respond to frustrating and difficult situations in positive and productive ways.

3 Super Relaxing Yoga Poses for Detoxification

Have a holiday hangover? Try these yoga poses to help detox and rebalance your body.

5 Steps to Relieve Chronic Back Pain

A spinal surgeon shares how to relieve chronic back pain without going under the knife.

Podcast: Kelly McGonigal

Rabbi Rami speaks with our January/February cover subject, Kelly McGonigal, Ph.D.

The Air We Share

As our air becomes more polluted, healthy breathing habits are becoming even harder to establish.

Jenna Grace

Jenna Grace is a neurodivergent writer and educator with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), sensory processing disorder (SPD), obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and social a…

Moving Towards Joy

Kelly McGonigal says to use the latest research on movement to bring more delight into your life.

Secrets of the Pelvic Floor

This often-neglected part of the body has a lot to say if you know how to listen.

Calm the Body, Calm the Culture

Dr. Will Cole on easing chronic inflammation in individuals and in society as a whole.

20 Creative (and Shame-Free) New Year’s Resolutions

Sometimes we set ourselves up for failure by making promises we can’t keep or by initiating resolutions steeped in self-blame.

Thanksgiving and Gratitude in Hard Times

Many Americans struggling with health, financial, and emotional problems find it challenging to feel grateful this Thanksgiving. Learn how to develop an attitude of gratitude.

Book Review: Brain Wash

Austin and David Perlmutter's new book provides science-based practical lifestyle interventions for detoxing the brain to help foster clearer thinking, deeper relationships, and healthier habits.

From the Editor

The letter from the editor kicks off each issue and helps set the tone for the magazine. Over the next six issues, members of the S&H team will be writing the letter. This issue’s writer, Kathryn Drury Wagner, is our wellness editor and resident social media guru, hot sauce fanatic, and wellness enthusiast.

8 Tricks for Controlling Holiday Binge Eating and Drinking

Avoid overeating and drinking too much this holiday season by mindfully focusing on giving yourself pleasure rather than trying to numb the pain.

Yoga Boosts Brain Health

Yoga expands your mind. ... Literally, it turns out. A regular yoga practice makes key brain areas larger and healthier.

4 Paths to Heal Old Wounds This Holiday Season

Power of Healing is our sacred gift. This holiday season, mend old wounds and restore joy as you journey down four pathways to self-healing.

Meditation Apps: Do They Work for Us or Against Us?

"Meditation takes practice, and in the beginning, like any new skill, meditation can seem challenging."

5 Things the Irritating Peloton Ad May Have Gotten Right

Could the Peloton bike ad be sort of okay when viewed through a different lens?

Dreading the Next Family Gathering?

Getting together with family, especially during the holidays, can cause a lot of stress and anxiety—even if it’s all love. In this week’s The Soul of Therapy, psychologist Kevin Anderson, PhD, gives us the tools to cope.

Support a Healthy Gut With CBD

CBD can help ease the pain and trouble that comes with an inflamed gut, whether it’s IBS, leaky gut, or some other problem.

Animal Mystics

How can we live in sacred relationship with the more-than-human world?

Got Gut Problems?

IBS? Leaky gut? CBD products can help with many digestive ailments.

Create a Healing Circle

Become an “energetic activist” by joining with others to create a collective healing circle in difficult times.

A Halloween-Time Practice for Finding Balance

Feeling off-kilter? This simple and powerful practice can bring you out of your swirling thoughts and ground you firmly in the present moment.

How to Use Jin Shin Jyutsu

Jin Shin Jyutsu isn’t well-known, but the practice promises whole-body healing, either with a practitioner or at home.

12 Reasons to Yawn Every Day

Is a yawn simply a silent scream for coffee or is it something more? Understand why yawning is a spiritual practice, and how you can include more of it in your daily routine.

Sacred Empath, Sacred Alchemist

What is a Sacred Empath? A Sacred Empath is a Light Worker, a Healer, a Way Shower and part of an army of sweet Souls who have incarnated on earth here and now to bring healing, love and light to a world in transition.

Don't Tell Me To Relax: Emotional Resilience in the Age of Rage

Meditation teacher and psychotherapist Ralph De La Rosa, author of Don't Tell Me to Relax, offers advice for living fully through difficult times.

7 Steps to Resolve and Release Emotional Turmoil

Pain from the past can build up and fester within us. These 7 steps will help you alleviate that pain and move forward to a more mindful state.

Changing Your Bad Dreams Into Good Thoughts

If you are plagued by nightmares, try one of these three practices to shift your perception of the dream. Then watch how your health is affected.

Reconnecting and Recommitting to Mother Earth

The courage and strength to take a stand for our planet can be found through reconnecting with the energy and ease of Mother Earth.

Health Expert Patricia Bragg on Stress Release

“We are all suffering from some kind of stress overload these days, which can cause chronic fatigue, anxiety attacks, insomnia, depression, mood swings, and burnout. What’s the answer? How can we find relief?”

Yoga for Constipation

Feeling stuck? Yoga can help with constipation. Get your digestion moving again with simple yoga flows.

Dos and Don'ts of Holistic Digestion for Your Animal Companion

Keep your four-legged family members from developing digestive issues by following these holistic and spiritual pet tips from animal chaplain Sarah Bowen.

Devotionals: Connecting With Unexpected Ancestors

Devotionals serve as a grounding presence during unprecedented times. “The practice of a daily devotion connects to the idea of spiritual reflection as a way to gain clarity and peace. Daily time for devotion creates inner peace, slows us down, and allows us to connect with the divine.”

Your Prescription: Look at Art

“Meditation on the 16th century Isenheim Altarpiece was prescribed to the sick. ... Could art still accomplish a miracle of comfort and consolation today ... and remind people of their mortality while also mitigating fear ... and instilling hope? ... Maybe it’s time to bring this practice of the past into the present—as a way to move into the future.”

Health Expert Patricia Bragg on the Miracle of Fasting

Renowned health expert Patricia Bragg, shown with her co-author Julia Loggins, has long practiced fasting and knows it is a key to a healthy immune system.

Book Preview: Awaken the Sleeping Giant

“A spiritual revolution is long overdue. A simple shift in awareness is all that is needed. No shots will be fired. No blood will be shed.”

What’s Bugging You?

“Creating this simple practice has been a great help to me. As I lean into it, I see where I am hooked into negative thought patterns about myself or others and recognize what I need to let go of. I also see what brings me joy.”

Adaptogen Smoothies Want to Help De-Stress Your Day

“As we all currently navigate this global pandemic, it’s paramount that we nourish our bodies with food and drink that work to reduce our stress and enhance our immunity.”

Digestive Health and the Earth Element

Support the immune and digestive systems by balancing the Earth element and nourishing the spleen.

A Journey Through Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth

Julie Peters describes her experience with SIBO and her long journey back to health.

Holistic Practices for Grief

Kathryn Drury Wagner speaks with trauma expert Kathryn Templeton on how to move from immobilization into balance and harmony.

How to Set Healthy Boundaries With Adult Children

Setting boundaries with your adult children can be beneficial both for their growth, and for yours.

15 Calming Affirmations for Parents as School Starts in a Pandemic

Back-to-school time is usually a happy stress. This year, the pandemic and school closures have us all feeling extra anxious and stressed in a not-so-happy way. Try these affirmations for returning to school during a pandemic.

Returning Home: An American Expat Evacuates India During COVID-19

Read about a difficult journey home from India during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Healing Generations of Pain

One of the founders of Earthbound Farm ignored the present-day consequences of her family’s past. Until she needed to heal.

Gratitude Ritual for the New Moon

The new moon, fully inhabiting the shadow, offers a potent time for exploring gratitude for the rhythms of life.

3 Spiritual Rituals for When Life Feels Out of Control

When ideas or illusions about what we can and cannot control in our lives are shattered, try these spiritual rituals to bring some light into moments of darkness.

Your Auric Forcefield

Know Instant Harmony & Happiness via

The Auric Chakra Harmonization Technique

I Am Done: 20 Beliefs I Am Done With

Is there a better time to liberate yourself from what no longer serves you? Emotionally, physically, spiritually, and mentally, you can create space by dumping clutter and removing obstacles.

Navigating Sex During Perimenopause

What impact does changing hormones have on your sex drive during perimenopause?

11 Foods to Support Your Immune System

Add these foods to your diet during times of high stress. They can help keep your immune system functioning optimally so you can stay healthy and fight off illness.

Self-Regulation Skills in a Crisis: Four Tools to Calm Down Now

Self-care staples include eating well, sleeping well, and connecting with friends and loved ones. Now is the time to double-down on these basic practices—and to make sure you're not spiraling into a black hole of stress.

Enjoy Yourself, Even Now

It's okay to find the silver lining and enjoy yourself, even now.

5 Ways to Be Brave Today

“Now that the whole world feels enveloped in a cloud of fear, we think only healthcare providers and a rare few others can be counted as courageous. Yes, they are: But so are you.”

Keeping Stay-at-Home Kids Healthy

Kids stuck at home due to coronavirus pandemic? Here are some ways to keep them mentally and physically fit.

COVID-19: Resources to Help You Stabilize

There is so much happening in the world right now that we have no control over. Here are some resources to help you reconnect to your heart and find stability.

Mindfulness, Itchy Eyes, and Protecting Yourself From COVID-19

In the age of COVID-19, mindfulness is a way to stay safe.

Does it Matter if You're an Alcoholic?

If you are questioning your relationship with alcohol, could that make you one of the lucky ones?

7 Ways to Sharpen Your Intuition

Intuition can become mute, stifled, or drowned out when we find ourselves out of balance. Here are some ways to help you get grounded so that you can reconnect with that inner voice.

3 Essential Oils to Relieve Eczema (Plus DIY Cream)

Clinical aromatherapist Dorene Petersen recommends her favorite essential oils to help soothe the itchy nightmare of eczema. Also included is a recipe for a luscious homemade cream to soothe painful dryness.

Conquering the Diabetes Dragon – Acknowledgment of the Child Hero

“Healing ceremonies matter—they matter because they serve to empower and bring us through to a different and better place—and to release what no longer serves us.”

Spring Detox

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COVID-19: Fearless Love Is Needed

“If we are going to survive as a species worthy of survival, we will have to get beyond the limits of ‘us’ verses ‘them’ and open to the truth of all of us together.”

Meals Together at the Long Table

Plant-based chef, nutrition professor, and researcher Amy Symington shares her take on creating meals that support community, connection, and health.

The Well-Gardened Mind: A Psychiatrist’s View on the Healing Power of Nature

We dig in with author Sue Stuart-Smith. “When we sow the soil, we plant seeds of healing within ourselves.”

What’s Your Doggie’s Dosha?

Canine wellness expert Amanda Ree dishes ayurvedic wisdom via dog dosha quizzes, balancing your furry friend's dosha and customizing it to meet your BFF's unique needs.

Challenging Self-Limiting Beliefs to Reach Your Potential

Just because you believe it doesn’t make it so. Good news: You can retrain your brain to challenge and conquer beliefs that limit you.

Is Your Mantra Organic?

20 things you’ll want to know about classic meditation mantras.

Boost Your Immune System With Exercise

From improved sleep and circulation to reduced anxiety and more, regular exercise boosts immunity and strengthens the body’s defense against illness.

Finding Your Sense of Self

“This truly is the time for humanity to change the course of their lives, evolve, and experience heaven on Earth.”

Vote with 2020 Vision

Answer These 5 Simple Questions Before Election Day

Personal Accountability in Chaos

James Hollis and Stephen Kiesling discuss Jung, accountability, and the stories we tell ourselves.

Removing the Veils: Seeing Ourselves in the New Light of Forced Change

“I don’t think there’s a right or wrong way to feel about being in isolation or quarantine in this unprecedented situation. ... We are being stripped—like Inanna in the underworld—and we are being offered the gift of hard-won wisdom.”

Quarantine Comfort With CBD

Discover how CBD can help you through the pandemic.

A Mind Shaped by Gardening

Adapted excerpt from The Well-Gardened Mind by Sue Stuart-Smith. (Copyright © 2020 by Sue Stuart-Smith. Reprinted by permission of Scribner, an Imprint of Simon & Schuster Inc.)

Practices for How COVID-19 Can Create Lasting, Positive Change

“As we find ourselves in the midst of various stages of reopening across the globe, our collective memory of this disaster can either fade away into history or become a drumbeat for a more just, equitable and sustainable society.”

Podcast: David Hanscom, MD

A former spine surgeon presents effective pain-relief alternatives to risky procedures.

A Morning Practice to Find Your Purpose

This sweet morning practice will help you align with your purpose.

Ancestral Lineage: You Are the Sum of Your Ancestors

“Our ancestors, even if neglected for 10,000 years, are still an ongoing part of our current manifestation. They bore us. We carry them.”

Music Is My Salvation

“There are very extreme opposites in response to this pandemic, which, in a sense, are in all of us. I’m just hoping that the positive, compassionate response is the one that sings out the loudest.” —Jai Uttal

Breath as Prayer

Many forms of prayer take the same amount of time to complete. This time—especially with 5.5-second breathing—has powerful physiological benefits.

Let Your Body Lead You Through Grief

The suffering of grief can begin to heal by accepting support and practicing self-care.

Compassionate Conversations: Advice From Three Experts

Leaning how to have real conversations about important topics with people you disagree with is a skill. These days, it's more important than ever. Diane Hamilton, Gabriel Wilson, and Kimberly Loh offer useful advice and powerful stories in their new book Compassionate Conversations.

The XX Brain: Inside a Woman's Brain

Lisa Mosconi, PhD, explores women's health in her new book, The XX Brain. She sheds light on how women can keep their brains healthy and prevent Alzheimer's, and what exactly those hormonal changes really mean.

5 Shelter-in-Place Habits Worth Keeping

From a safe-seeming 6 feet apart, a neighbor and I waved hello. As if on cue, we both asked: “How are you?” And, simultaneously, we both replied: “Fine.” White paper masks furre…

All the Feels: How Feeling Your Feelings Can Teach You to Heal

“We do not get to choose what feelings arise or how intensely we feel them. Our only choice is in how we relate to them.”

5 Questions to Help Decode Your Chronic Back Pain

That chronic back pain is a message from your body. Are you listening? These 5 questions will help you gain insight.

Your Circadian Rhythm in Quarantine

Quarantine is causing abrupt changes in our body time clocks that may hinder digestion, immune system function, energy, and mood. Here’s how to create a healthy schedule.

Special Edition: Roadside Assistance Part II

Rabbi Rami is answering your questions, with special editions of his online column Roadside Musings.

Intimacy and Sex in Isolation

Sure. Pandemic doesn’t scream sexy—but you can still ignite the spark.

The Way of the Soul

Inspired by Rumi’s poetry, deep curiosity, and a wish to learn more about Islam, Kate Green Tripp, a Santa Cruz-based editor and yoga teacher, traveled to Turkey.

Managing Anger in Isolation

Your quarantine partner just aggravated you again. You’re angry—or are you? Reflection may reveal something else.

5 Ways to Resolve Anger in Quarantine

Feeling angry and cagey in lockdown with your partner? Here are 5 methods to (resolving) the madness.

re/VIEW: Sharon Salzberg

Renowned Buddhist meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg’s first book on meditation was Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness, which she penned in 1995. Since then, she ha…

Book Review: Neurodharma

We can leverage mental tools to tap into desired feelings of calm, contentment, peace, focus, and non-judgement, and move away from stress and anxiety.

Dispelling Fear

"A woman in her 40s was seated on a bench at the park entrance. She was weeping. I asked her if I could help. She replied that although she was healthy, she was scared."

Kelsey J. Patel

Kelsey J. Patel is a spiritual coach, Reiki master, and wellness expert and has helped thousands struggling with burnout and anxiety. Kelsey worked on Capitol Hill in the U.S. Sena…

Here’s Your Happiness Shopping List

These feel-good foods are better alternatives than inhaling a sleeve of ultraprocessed crackers.

4 Chair Stretches to Ease Neck, Shoulder, and Upper Back Pain

The repetitive movements you make every day can be a big factor in aggravating or even causing pain in the neck, shoulders, and upper back. Try these four stretches from chiropractor Dr. Amy Shevokas to find relief.

The Spiritual Flame of Rage

A journey toward accepting—and even embracing—anger.

Boost Your Brain: 5 Natural Nootropics

These superfoods not only protect neurological function, they can also improve mental performance.

Love Is Blind: A Romance About (Not Having) Choice

Love Is Blind is a strange hit, a romance about having all of our choices made for us.

Toolbox: Creating Calm

In our fast-paced and turbulent world, it can be difficult to find space for peace, both emotionally and physically. These tools, designed to create calm in the mind, body, and environment, will help to remind you to make you a priority.

Music Review: Note to Self

Owing largely to the traces of Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, and Nina Simone in her voice, Jamaican singer and yogi Jah9’s style has been called jazz on dub, but the music on he…

Book Review: The XX Brain

The Groundbreaking Science Empowering Women to Maximize Cognitive Health and Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease

A Good Night’s Sleep

Is anything better than waking up refreshed? Are you unable to answer that question because you don’t remember what waking up refreshed feels like? We can relate. Read on if you or anyone you love needs tips on how to get a good night's sleep.

Escape the Trance of Busyness: A Conversation With Tara Brach, PhD

S&H's Stephen Kiesling sat down with Tara Brach, founder and senior teacher of the Insight Meditation Center of Washington and author of Radical Acceptance, to explore her RAIN practice: Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture.

Surprising Ways to End “Mental Illness”

“An increasing number of studies have found that improving the physical functioning of the brain improves the mind.”

A Neuropsychiatrist Asks: Is It Time to Stop Talking About “Mental Illness”?

“Reimagining ‘mental health’ as ‘brain health’ changes everything.”

9 Tips for Enhancing Your Emotional Wellbeing in 2020

Boosting your emotional wellbeing doesn’t always have to feature grand gestures and sweeping changes. Here are nine small adjustments you can make in your day-to-day life.

How Do I Find My Authentic Self?

Rabbi Rami on being authentic, spirituality vs. religion, and aliens.

The Power of Slow Living in a Fast-Paced World

“When we live with purpose, when we slow down and take stock of what is really important to us, voluntarily letting go of what isn’t, we begin to live more truthfully, on our own terms.”

Were You Raised to Be Afraid?

“I was raised to believe that being frightened meant being alive. Timeo, ergo sum. That being scared is not a frailty but a skill. That I displayed intelligence by shunning whatever displayed itself as welcoming or wild. That the scariest time-bomb in the world was me.”

Self-Compassion: Why We Sometimes Feel Worse Before We Feel Better

“Self-compassion takes strength, courage, and faith. Trust the process, and allow yourself to slowly let in more self-compassion, more kindness, a few degrees at a time.”

Podcast: Dr. Will Cole

One of the leading voices in functional medicine talks with Rabbi Rami about chronic inflammation, and why it is time for entirely new approaches to health and wellness.

7 Myths of Self-Care and the Truth of Building Resilience

Self-care is not a luxury. In order to build resilience, putting yourself first is critical. Here are seven of the self-care roadblocks we erect and how to break through them to find love and compassion for ourselves.

Brain Wash: Rewire Your Brain for Healthier Habits

Drs. David and Austin Perlmutter explain how we can rewire our brains to develop healthier habits.

August Brice

August Brice of Tech Wellness is an EMF (electric and magnetic field) expert bringing mindfulness and balance to our relationship with technology. She is passionate …

The Best Position for Sleep and 7 Reasons to Find Yours

Try these tips for getting comfortable in your favorite sleeping position.

Through Yoga, A Path Beyond 12 Steps

Yogi Tommy Rosen uses his practice to help others in recovery.

Seven Keys to Conscious Parenting

Mindful tips from the author of Misadventures of a Parenting Yogi

3 Techniques to Inspire Your Sex Life

Sex therapists and coaches share the innovative approaches they use to inspire greater intimacy

Drop Out of Your Life

Here's how and why from six people who made it happen.

Inside the Mind of Chronic Pain

A new generation of researchers is getting inside the mind of chronic pain—and unlocking powerful psychotherapies against what might be the nation’s biggest health crisis.

Dream Catchers

Forget the book club—make your next gathering about your dreams.

When God Goes to Therapy

A new generation of psychologists finds that a spiritual approach to treatment can help patients heal.

Is a Happy Life Different from a Meaningful One?

A scientific controversy about the relationship between meaning and happiness raises fundamental questions about how to live a good life from The Greater Good Science Center.

What Connects Us: Vulnerability

An excerpt from The Wisdom We're Born With by Daniel Gottlieb

Meditation on the Mat

Try yoga nidra for deep relaxation and profound healing.

Why We Forgive

By letting go of past hurts, we can heal not only ourselves, but our families, our communities, and our world.

"Benedictus: The Story of Sister Anne"

SPONSORED CONTENTBenedictus: The Story of Sister Anne is a love story of both divine and human dimensions. The story of the nun is also the story of Joseph, her psychologist. It wa…

Soothe: Set Up Your Inner Sanctum

Have you ever noticed that when you walk into a spa, you feel the tension begin to melt away before you even have a treatment? You're likely being cloaked in a preplanned double wh…

Candle Gazing and 4 Other Ways to Balance an Overactive Mind

The effects of constantly being “on” can wreak havoc on our bodies and minds. Try candle gazing and these other practices to induce stillness and relieve stress.

One-Moment Meditation for Managers

How an MBA turned to meditation and in the process managed to turn meditation upside down. While a student at the Yale School of Management, I decided to invite all the students, …

Helping Kids to Connect Body, Breath, and Mind

Peeking in on children’s yoga classes, I watch kids doing poses such as tree, snake, butterfly, or lion, while the instructor tells a story about the various ways these creatures b…

Shift Your Body, Change Your Mind

At the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, we have been working for the last year to find ways to help our veterans returning from Iraq a…

Indulging the Totally Selfish Joys of Selfless Giving

Here’s the science behind creating a chain reaction of goodnessThough economists and grumps have long argued to the contrary, many spiritual traditions teach us that, at our core, …

Create Your Own Holy Day

We are entering one of the busiest spiritual seasons of the year, so we asked for some special “Roadside Assistance” from Rabbi Rami Shapiro:• What are holy days for?• How should w…

How Chinese Medicine Cures Colds

As modern science continues to unravel the complexity of virus behavior on a cellular level in humans, cold sufferers should be reminded that the Chinese medical system has success…

Why Your Life Matters

In the 1990s I spent many happy years living in a beautiful apartment overlooking the River Thames in London. Then, in the summer of ’96, everything came crashing down. After findi…

Getting Unstuck

Last May, in order to pursue his dream of an integrated life of travel, writing, and photography, a smart, attractive thirty-something named Zero Dean quit his job, terminated the …

Unlocking the Spice Secrets of Temple Priests and Monks

The Jerusalem Post recently did a story on Tel Aviv University professor Michael Ovadia, a research specialist who normally focuses on the medicinal properties of snake venom. Seem…

Your Soul Needs Playtime

A few years ago, when I was teaching an undergraduate seminar at Stanford on the psychology of happiness, I had the students put away their books and push their chairs to the side …

Why Relationships Are So Difficult

On any given day, 1.6 million of us are blogging, 27 million are tweeting, and 1.5 billion are posting on Facebook. We’re emailing during meetings, texting during lectures, and tal…

Best Practice: How to Really Want to Work Out

Motivation is often spoken of as if it were some inward reservoir. Whether it is talking about one’s level of motivation (as if the tank were either full or empty), waiting for mot…

Tree Pose to Ease the Body Into Meditation

Fall is a time of seasonal quickening, as we go back to work in earnest, and a time of rising anxiety. It is a perfect time to start or renew a mind/body meditation practice. You w…

Self-Compassion: How to Value Yourself

The secret to empowered action is learning not to beat yourself up.

Book Review: Water in Plain Sight

Water in Plain SightHope for a Thirsty WorldBy Judith D. SchwartzSt. Martin’s PressFollowing environmental news is mostly an exercise in confronting anxiety, helplessness, and desp…

The Mind-Gut Connection

The Mind-Gut ConnectionHow the Hidden Conversation Within Our Bodies Impacts Our Mood, Our Choices, and Our Overall HealthBy Dr. Emeran MayerHarper Wave More than 100 trillion mic…

Book Review: Clearing Emotional Clutter

Clearing Emotional ClutterMindfulness Practices for Letting Go of What’s Blocking Your Fulfillment and Transformationby Donald AltmanNew World LibraryYou couldn’t swing a book bag …

Film Review: Shelter

ShelterDirected by Paul BettanyScreen Media FilmsIn this gritty, nerve-wracking look at life on the streets of New York City, Anthony Mackie plays Tahir, a homeless African immigra…

The Man Who Planted Trees

by Jim Robbins“When the Europeans  landed, the forests were so thick that it’s often been said that a squirrel could travel from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi River wi…

The Healing Power of Breath

by Richard P. Brown and Patricia L. GerbargRichard P. Brown  and Patricia L. Gerbarg, both MDs and teaching psychiatrists, weave contemporary science together with ancient wis…

Liquid Mind X: Meditation

Chuck WildReal MusicChuck Wild’s music career has been a wild ride. Back in the 1980s, he played keyboards for the new wave rockers Missing Persons and later produced music for the…

The Practicing Mind

By Thomas M. SternerThomas Sterner is an accomplished musician who, as a child, practiced his instruments without much enjoyment. Though he became proficient, it wasn’t until he wa…

The Prosperous Heart

The Prosperous Heart: Creating a Life of “Enough”By Julia Cameron, with Emma LivelyTarcher/PenguinOur current world has tutored us not in optimism but in dread. Days and nights are…

Hypnosis House Call

Hypnosis House Call: A Complete Course in Mind-Body Healingby Steven GurgevichScience is revealing the astounding powers of the human brain to reorganize itself according to the st…

Animal Dreamzzz

Kristen RaceAnyone who has ever suffered a bout of insomnia knows how frustrating it is to try to fall asleep when your mind is not ready; this is true not just for adults but also…

Reclaiming Energy Medicine

Intuition medicine pioneer Francesca McCartney has grown from a nearly silent little girl into an outspoken proponent of a once-clandestine healing technology, making the science of energy a respectable twenty-first-century health care choice.

What’s in a Spiritual Name

When Shakespeare’s Juliet asserted that “a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet,” she likely got it wrong. At least, that’s what the devotees who adopt spiritual names eve…

Do Dings and Divots Reveal Soul?

My mother died suddenly from a heart attack, and I can’t rid myself of the anger I feel toward her for that. I love her deeply, and I feel guilty about the anger. And I’m fearful t…

That Music You Hate Constricts Your Heart

hen study participants at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore listened to music that brought them a sense a joy, the inner lining of their blood vessels bega…

Check Your Thermostat To Avoid Depression

What should we do when we’re upset or depressed? Should we analyze our feelings to figure out what’s wrong, or should we just forget about them and move on? Opinions differ, but ne…

Thwack!

The Surprise that Heals Trauma It started as an upset whisper that turned into a rant that’s become a roar during the last decade or so. You can hear it in professional circles o…

Yoga and Tea

As long as I’ve been married to a yoga teacher, I’ve had trouble keeping milk in the refrigerator. Whenever she teaches, she makes her own blend of chai latte and carts it to her g…

Just Say Yes

Dr. Ron Alexander sat listening to the record company executives and staff he’d been hired to help. They’d sought him out as a mindfulness expert and corporate consultant to help t…

Hands-On Healing

Pat Fleury teaches doctors, shamans, and regular folks the art of energy healing

Teachers We Trust

Here’s a simple truth: Everyone is a spiritual teacher. Parents, of course, are profound spiritual teachers. So are children. So are siblings. So are priests and imams and school t…

10 Moves to Relax and Uplift Your Body

Feeling depleted, frenzied or stiff? 10 easy moves to relax your mind and uplift your energy

The Healing Power of Water

For millennia, humans have sought physical relief, emotional healing, and even spiritual renewal by immersing themselves in water. Writer Lindsey Crittenden soaks it all in.

51 Meditations for Tending the Heart Fire

Find your flow with these “micro meditations” for renewal, connection, and inner strength.

Do Healing Frequencies Work?

There is growing interest in using sound for various ailments and to boost human health. Do healing frequencies work? Research suggests they do.

Mary Pipher: The Healing Power of Action

The psychologist Mary Pipher unites conservatives and liberals to defend Nebraska’s environment one small, sweet action at a time.

Let the Spirit Move You

Listening to music may be the ultimate mood enhancer. For an extra kick, sing along and even dance.

Cultivate the Habits of Lasting Happiness

The key to happiness is in giving, not getting. Yeah, you know that. But do you know why?

Embodying Change: How Movement Can Transform Your Life

Research now proves what these experts already knew: that if you want to change your life, the place to start isn't in your mind, but in your body.

5 Questions for Ira Byock

A dialogue on end-of-life care

A Certain Sadness: My Relationship with Depression

I know the holidays bring up a lot for some people.How about you? Are you depressed?(I feel like I am about to write copy for an anti-depressant commercial. Are you depressed? Trou…

Seven Steps to a Stress-Busting Attitude

Stress affects our circulation, slows our digestive system, and even increases our blood sugar levels. Try these tips from naturopath Dr. Michael Murray to reduce stress and boost …

Soothe Restless Leg Syndrome Naturally

For many, restless leg syndrome is more than an irritating twinge. The neurological condition, often considered a sleep disorder because the spasms can wake you up at night, makes …

5 Steps to Clear Mental Clutter

Is it time to clean out your spiritual closet? Is your emotional sock drawer overflowing? Productivity expert Erin Rooney Doland, author of "Unclutter Your Life in One Week," offers five steps to restore order.

The Essence of Stillness

Thich Nhat Hanh wrote that silence can be thundering, eloquent, and full of energy.

6 Ways Optimism Positively Impacts Your Health

Be healthier through one simple choice every day: be optimistic.

Marianne Williamson: Love is the Bottom Line

Twenty years after she introduced a new generation to A Course in Miracles in her bestselling book, A Return to Love, Marianne Williamson is still taking on the world—with a …

How to Avoid Holiday Meltdowns

This season, avoid the usual meltdowns and instead forge meaningful connections.

Zen Medication: Can Meditation Heal Us?

A study published in the July Journal of Psychiatric Practice reveals that Zen meditation and its secular sister, mindfulness meditation, effectively reduce depression, anxiety, an…

The Joy Of Being Feminine Wisdom and the Power of Weakness

What is feminine wisdom? What is feminine power? What role can they play — for both men and women — in this time of such significant global change? Feminine wisdom is mysterious an…

Reflections on Judgment

I’m too judgmental. It is a bad habit (there I go again!), one I learned from my family, where criticism far outweighed compliments. I went to a liberal arts college to learn criti…

The Self and the Other

Civil rights expert John A. Powell explores the delicate yet enduring cord between our spiritual practice and social justice.

Friendships Boost A Woman’s Health

A landmark study by the University of Michigan has identified a likely reason why feeling emotionally close to a friend works wonders on a woman’s mood — and even boosts her health…

Crucial Practice: The Mindful Diaper Change

Cassandra Vieten, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and the co-director of the Mind-Body Medicine Research Group at the California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. Becoming…

Flowering Plants Speed Recovery from Surgery

If you want to help speed the recovery of a hospital patient who’s had surgery, bring a flowering plant, preferably a potted plant, suggests a recent study by the Department of Hor…

How to Empty Your Head

For years now I have been telling audiences about my alternative to higher education. I call it lower education. You come to my school and on the first day we give you a Ph.D. You …

What Are We, Really

BEYOND THE HORIZONSome ideas seem almost too big to begin to wrap one’s mind around — and almost too scary to even try. But given the choice of putting on blinders to stay comforta…

Writing Oneself Out of Fibromyalgia

Fibromyalgia (FMS) is a debilitating mix of pain, fatigue, sleep disturbance, and depression that is resistant to treatment. Part of the difficulty in treating the millions of Amer…

Practicing Death

Marti was a bright, optimistic, attractive 40-year-old woman when she first entered a support group for cancer patients that I facilitated at the Center for Attitudinal Healing in …

The Case for Yogic Breathing

The mind has a terrible time telling itself what to do. Fortunately, science is catching up with yogic breathing wisdom.Since the time of Descartes (“I think, therefore I am”), mod…

Focusing on What Matters, Moment by Moment

“Many of the world's contemplative traditions teach that the normal mind is afflicted in various ways; that since it so readily brings us suffering and anxiety, it can't be deemed healthy.”

The Joy of Thanks

Shifting into gratitude not only feels great, research shows that it is powerfully healing.

A Mind-Altering Message

One of the key words in the New Testament is metanoia, usually translated as "repentance" and giving rise to neurotic concerns about sin and self-reproach. But the Greek word meta …

Beyond the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

About fifteen years ago, Robert E. Thayer, Ph.D., a professor of psychology at California State University Long Beach and author of the recent book The Origin of Everyday Moods (Ox…

Empowered by the Sacred

An Invocation"Rise and place your hands on your heart. Bow your head to your heart and in doing so, bow your mind, bow your intelligence, bow your ego, to the presence of the Livin…

The Soundtrack of Healing

Outside the main entrance to the 80-acre campus of Exempla Good Samaritan Medical Center in Lafayette, Colorado, the air is filled with the sweet serenade of chirping bobwhites and…

Getting Used to Stuff: A Conversation with Daniel Gottlieb

“Thank God for GPS,” sighs psychologist, family therapist, radio host, and author Daniel Gottlieb, rolling into the Jewish Community Center in Bridgewater, New Jersey. If it were p…

Play That Lightens the Load of Children in Hospitals

To spice up Sunday School, teachers at Christ Episcopal Church of Pontevedra Beach, Florida, began using a Christian storytelling program called Godly Play (godlyplay.com). The Mon…

The Generative Game of Life

Generative people tend to be those who have worked through their identity crises. Their life stories -- good or horrible -- tend to be coherent. They're dealing with their stuff, figuring out who they are. In other words, self-help isn't selfish.

The Latest Cure for Stress and Insomnia: Orgasms for the Brain

Autonomous sensory meridian response videos, exploding in popularity online, help people relax and get some sleep in a stressful world.

Live from a Place of Love: An Interview with Wayne Dyer

Dr. Wayne Dyer is a famously self-made man who was born in Detroit in 1940 and spent his early years in orphanages. He became a high school guidance counselor and then a professor …

Putting the ‘Om’ in Classroom

San Francisco’s Visitacion Valley Middle School is an unlikely beacon of hope. Shootings and murders are common enough in the California city’s southern neighborhoods that the loca…

How to Focus a Wandering Mind

New research reveals what happens in a wandering mind—and sheds light on the cognitive and emotional benefits of increased focus.

5 Signs You’re In a Toxic Relationship

If your relationship is unhealthy, it’s time to fix it or get out. But how can you know for sure?

Conquering Autoimmune Disorders

Two alternative approaches offer hope to those suffering from chronic pain.

Care of the Soul: The Place Beyond Seeking

I used to be a seeker, looking for answers to all sorts of questions, wondering which religious tradition was right and best, concerned about the nature of the afterlife, wishing I…

10 Days on a Grain Brain Diet

One woman reports healthy appetite shifts and a clearer head after trying the low-carb, low-sugar regimen.

How Do You Want to Die?

Sponsored Content from The New York Open Center

5 Questions for Tim Ringgold

A dialogue on end-of-life care

Why Do I Feel So Alone?

Loneliness can be an invitation to change

Aging: Blame Your Neighborhood

Fight the aging process with blueberries. Or retinols. A lot of Pilates, and laughter and good sex. But if you live in the wrong neighborhood, you’ll still grow older more quickly …

Recovering Joy

How a retreat leads to increasingly positive thoughts

Heightened Sensitivity

Are you an HSP—a highly sensitive person? Explore these tips to help you manage your walk through life without getting overstimulated.

24 Hours of Tea

We've found a tea for any time of day and anything that ails you—what will you brew?

The Birth Order Myth, Debunked

I always thought that birth order equals destiny. I’m the older of two children, and I’m driven, ambitious and uptight. My younger brother? The classic second child: mellow, change…

Five Kinds Of Breaths Everyone Should Take

Breath is life—something we take for granted, but couldn’t do without. In times of stress or grief, often we hear advice to “take a deep breath.” But sometimes deep breathing becom…

Growing Hope

Hope may be the most important feeling we can have. Here’s how to cultivate it.

9 Surprising Benefits of Talking to Yourself

It doesn’t mean you’re crazy. In fact, it can help you clarify your thoughts, shake off stress, and boost your mood.

91-Year-Old Meditation Master Ruth Denison

In the California desert, a vipassana pioneer prepares for the next stage of her remarkable life.

Gut Bacteria Affects Your Mood?

New studies suggest that probiotics do more than help you digest—they may also boost your mood.Audrey Anne Sukacz said she started enriching her diet with probiotics—foods that con…

5-Day Ayurveda Primer (Day Two)

Natural Healing Wisdom from the Chopra Center

Care of the Soul: Spiritual Disorders

Every mental health worker knows about the DSM-V, a manual for defining disorders for the health system. It’s like a dictionary in which every psychological problem imaginable has …

Meet Your Parasites: Can They Help Heal Autoimmune Disorders?

Years after scientists first noticed that autoimmune disorders rise as our environment gets cleaner, a new generation of researchers is looking at parasites not as a scourge but as…

5 Apps to Quiet Your Mind

From meditation to mental health, try these apps to achieve stillness on the run.

Natural Medicine: B12 Benefits, Adrenal Fatigue, pH-balanced Diet, and Optimal Juicing

I’m hearing about more and more people getting vitamin B injections, but then I read that this is appropriate only for people with a deficiency. What’s your advice? Vitamin B12 wo…

Face to the Floor: How a Buddhist American woman opened her heart to Islam

Omar stood on my doorstep, smiling and peering at me through square, outdated glasses. He placed his hand over his heart in a traditional Muslim greeting and stepped inside. His d…

Design Therapy

Does your décor reveal your secret anxieties? Never fear—holistic design expert Laura Benko is here.

The Second Coming of Psychedelics

The times, they are a'changin'—explore how psychedelic medicines have found popularity in the 21st century.

3 Easy Moves to Uplift Your Energy

The Great Rejuvenator inspires joy, reduces chronic fatigue, recirculates stagnant blood in legs, and relieves menstrual cramps. Lie on your back with your legs straight up agains…

Reb Zalman: The December Years

Approaching the final years of life with a sense of peace.

Post-traumatic Strength, through Faith

A Light at the End of the Trauma Tunnel

Try a Calm Approach to Your Relationship

An excerpt from Buddhism for Couples by Sarah Napthali

A Lifeboat for the Caregiver

Taking care of a loved one with dementia can be a grueling task, but meditation and support can lighten the load.

Your Body Knows the Answer

An Interview with David Rome

Worried Sick

Recent studies confirm that a "half-empty" outlook is literally bad for your health.

Channeling Depression Into a Powerful Tool for Creativity

I wouldn't exactly call depression a gift, but I’ve come to accept the restless emptiness and nagging sadness as signals from my soul instead of merely the symptoms of an illness t…

A Simple Act to Create a Buffer from Stress

Cultivating positive emotions is a powerful way to build mental and emotional resilience and create a buffer from the chronic stressors in our lives.

Mindful Scrolling

How to create social media boundaries to stay connected without getting sucked in.

poem: HANDLE WITH CARE

"When clouds gather / in the aisle of my mind, / eyebrows withering into space,"

Tom Bunn

Tom Bunn, LCSW, is the author of Panic Free: The 10-Day Program to End Panic, Anxiety, and Claustrophobia, which is the result of his many years addressing flight panic in his role…

Preventing Panic: This 3-Step Process Can Calm You Down

What causes panic? Most explanations miss the mark. But the cause of panic is obvious if emotional regulation is understood. Here are some basics. When something unexpected happens…

The Discussion: Seeking Connection

This month's discussion column addresses a reader who questions: How can I nourish my spiritual side when living in a rural area—where connections are harder to find?

6 Crystals to Help You Sleep

Find the right crystal for your sleep issue, and you'll soon be lost in dreamland.

How Can I Find a Simple Religion?

Looking for a simple religion to share with your friends? Read on.

Thriving as an Empath

For 20 years, Judith Orloff has helped make being an empath “something that caring characters would aspire towards.” She shares practices from a lifetime of overcoming shame and creating empowerment.

100+ Books We Love

Dive in to our special section on 100+ books we love.

Spirituality and Addictions

"When I’m trying to encourage clients struggling with addiction to attend a 12-step program I often hear 'I don’t get anything out of that' or 'I don’t see how hanging out with a bunch of people talking about how terrible their lives are is supposed to help me.' Notice the self-focus in both objections to getting help."

Science & Spirit: Brain Freeze, Don’t Stress about Stress, Eat Apples

This week, researchers share why we get a brain freeze when enjoying a cold drink or ice cream. They also warn us not to freak out so much if we feel anxious. And they would like us to eat some apples and tea, please. Want the bigger picture? Read on.

How (and Why) to Feel a Feeling

“The problem isn’t the depth of sadness or anger that we feel. The problem is our resistance to them.”

Teaching a Stressed System to Relax: Living in the Gaps

“The more I practice cultivating the gaps and being really present for them, the more my nervous system gets the message that I’m okay.”

Guided Meditation: Body as Home

A simple guided meditation to help you connect to your breath and your body.

The Immigrants Who Make America Great

The Fourth of July, the horrific news reports from our southern border, and developments in the Middle East combined to make me reflect on immigration in a personal way. I live…

Science & Spirit: Sleeping, Dogs, Uncertainty

This week, learn why adopting a dog is a lot like dating; how to deal with uncertainty; and sneaky ways to reset your body clock. Want to know more? Read on.

Spirituality and Psychotherapy

"Most of the people who consult me now want to explore a spiritual perspective on their life situations. Many say finding a therapist who would integrate spirituality into therapy was not easy. Most therapists are still trained to avoid making spirituality a focus of therapy."

CBD for Joint Pain

Can CBD help with joint pain? Research suggests it can.

Someone Stole My Buddha!

Reader M.C. Coolidge shares the story of a stolen Buddha statue.

Sheryl Paul

Sheryl Paul, M.A., has guided thousands of people worldwide through her private practice, best-selling books, online courses, and her website, conscious-transitions.com. This article was adapted from her new book, The Wisdom of Anxiety: How Worry & Intrusive Thoughts Are Gifts to Help You Heal, published in May 2019 by Sounds True.

Inner Climate Change

The world is inflamed, and so are we. Maybe the two are connected, and maybe healing our own bodies can help heal the world.

The Power of the Smile

Intentionally smiling can be part of your spiritual practice.

Science & Spirit: An Easy Way to Feel Better, Memory Science, and the NCP

This week, find out how to boost your mood in only 12 minutes and read about a way that people are healing our deep divides.

The Benefits of Taking the Plunge: Cold Water Swimming

Cold-water swimming might sound unpleasant, but research suggests regular dips in cold water can improve health and longevity.

Discover Your Blueprint for Your Passionate Purpose

Finding the path that brings you the most joy requires inner awareness.

The Bribery and Fraud Unmasks a Larger Spiritual Crisis

Every spiritual tradition has warned us that money, power, and prestige provide only transient satisfaction and the temporary elation they provide invariably fades, leaving us once again discontent and in hot pursuit of the next deluded hope for enduring fulfillment. If spiritual sources are not convincing enough, scientific studies on happiness now confirm this perennial wisdom.

How to Tell if You Are Following Your Bliss or Chasing a Craving

The work of pleasure and desire is to be honest with ourselves.

Resolving and Releasing Emotional Pain

How can empathic people let loose the burden of other people's emotions?

Do We Talk Too Much About Our Pain?

In a world of constant sharing—a debate about how much is too much.

Separating Physical Pain from Emotional Pain

When we suppress emotional energy, it lands in the energy system for the physical body, generating or exacerbating pain, illness and disease.

Nectar of Love: Rose, Saffron, Lime Coconut Cream

A love tonic dessert for love day.

Marketplace March/April 2019

Books, services, education and products that are sustainable and environmentally friendly.

It's OK to Envy Belle Delphine

What is your sense of purpose?

40 Days to a Lean, Calm, Energized & Happy Self

An interview with Sara Gottfried MD

Let’s Tangle – Creative Meditation for Valentine’s Day

What do you want to Grow or Let Go from your heart?

Create Your 40-day, Brain Body Diet Book Club

This could be the healthiest group you’ll ever join.

3 Best Supplements for Better Sleep

“We know that sleep makes us feel better, and we know it’s better for us. And we even know how to measure our deep sleep. But how do we get it?”

Learning How to Love Your Body

Journaling can transform not only my physical health, but also emotional and spiritual health.

Breathing for Mental Clarity

A guided meditation to sharpen the mind.

Mindfulness for Menopause Relief

Being aware of the present moment may reduce certain symptoms.

Spirituality and Relationships

Close relationships can bring out the best and worst in us. A mindful approach to relationships requires a mindful approach to life in general.

From the Editor

"We’re celebrating 20 years of S&H, and I find myself sorting through old stories, trying to make sense of things. What’s real? What matters? What did I miss?"

Spirituality and Depression

Therapist Kevin Anderson reflects on the connection between spirituality and depression. "I tell depressed people that I have given up on self-esteem and I hope they will too. Focusing on increasing self-esteem amounts to trying to prop up the small-i self."

Spirituality, Mental Health, and Therapy: The Mind-Body-Spirit Connection

Spirituality and mental health are often thought of as two separate tracks in a person's life. This six-part series aims to begin stitching them together, along with therapy, to reveal the critical areas where they influence each other.

The Alchemy of the Heart: Witnessing Grief

When we allow pain in fully (and then release it fully), the heart can transform pain into gold.

Working Mindfully With Physical Pain

Pain can offer an invitation to soften, writes Mark Coleman, the founder of the Mindfulness Institute.

Training Our Mind for Endurance

Mental training can help us get through horrible physical experiences—even childbirth!

What Helps and What Hurts

Yoga can be a great tool for recovery, but only if yoga teachers understand how to shape the practice to the needs of people healing from trauma.

The Magical Potential of Doors

Bring attention to the doors of your life and you might discover the magic they hold.

Stop Reacting! Respond Instead

Evolve your volcano of reactive emotions, moving instead into an authentic and appropriate response.

Here’s Why CBD-Infused Face Serum Is 2019’s Most Exciting Beauty Trend

If you haven’t heard of CBD yet, get ready for it to be one of the biggest health and wellness trends of 2019.

Snuggling Up to Our Obstacles

"We need to understand our fears and vulnerabilities, not so we can blast through what stands in our way, but so we can figure out how to support ourselves to manage whatever it is we fear."

Recovery Trekking: A Spiritual Approach to Recovery from Addiction

"I realized at some point along my own journey that alcohol was not my problem; I was my problem, and I was unconsciously using alcohol to change my reality."

The Impermanence of Emotions

"The truth is, we all go through cycles of emotions and eventually return to neutral. We then remain in a neutral state of equilibrium until some stimulus acts on us again, and then we feel an emotion until it too fades away and we return to neutral again."

The Power of Breath to Calm

When life goes sideways on you, it's helpful to remember that one of the most powerful tools we have to affect many layers of our health is already happening within us.

The Labyrinth as a Walking Meditation

Meditation can be frustrating, with physical discomfort and constant, intrusive thoughts. Walking a labyrinth can be a wonderful walking meditation.

Chasing That Most Important Point

Stephen Kiesling and Zen priest Edward Espe Brown converse about Zen, Tassajara, the beginner's mind, and more.

3 Journals for Finding Your Way in a Complex World

These journals are interactive and aim to unlock the hidden places inside of us.

5 Reasons to Take a Fall Vacation

Make time to rejuvenate with a healing getaway.

A Healing Crisis After an Energy Treatment

Although it is not common to experience a healing crisis after an energy healing treatment, here are nine tips for moving through the process.

Inside the Sept/Oct 2018 Issue

Take a look inside our latest issue.

8 Best Plants for Improving Memory & Concentration

These botanicals are nontoxic and can be taken with confidence.

The Catalyst

One rather innocuous experience delivered the most exhilarating, victorious, and perfect moments of my life.

Rabbi Rami: How Best to Live My Dying

Roadside Assistance for the spiritual traveler.

Talk to Us: September/October 2018

Help for Depression I read with great interest the article titled “Zoloft & the Sacred.” As a nurse practitioner working in psychiatry, my day is filled with patients seeking help…

Schisandra and Sleep: The Key to ZZZs

Schisandra and sleep: A simple recipe using this “five-flavored” fruit can help you reclaim a good night’s sleep.

Hone Your Energy Healing With Deeper Intention

Moving toward a more granular intention for an energy healing session.

Left-Handed Mental-Health Treatment

When being a southpaw matters, medically.

Trauma is an Integrative Experience that Requires Integrative Healing

Trauma affects all the systems of the body, mind, soul and spirit; its treatment must go beyond talk centered therapies.

Running into Faith

On one especially long winter run, I was overcome by a deep, felt sense that I could trust myself, others, and life in a way that I had never known.

4 Ways to Bring Your Authentic Self to Work Every Day

Authentic people live according to four practices that you can adopt in your daily life.

Overcoming Blockages and Being Stuck

Q. I sometimes feel energetically stuck or blocked when I contemplate changes I want to make, or ideas that I want to explore. Why does this happen and what can I do to get things …

Toolbox: Crystal Clear

Explore the intriguing world of crystals with this beautiful collection of gems hand-picked by S&H.

Vaccinate Against Stress

Beneficial bacteria may become the basis for an immunization.

Psychic Protection

Contain your energy and utilize psychic protection by setting your chakras and auric boundaries.

Intuition and Spirituality

When it comes to trusting your intuition, spirituality can help you differentiate between genuine intuition and a bout of paranoia.

Biological Time: Slowing Down the Aging Process

Find little ways every day to slow down, even if it’s just for ten minutes a day.

Letting Go of the Fear of Death

An excerpt from Grateful Exit: How to Advocate Effectively, Take Care of Yourself, and Be Present for the Death of a Loved One.

An Energy Practice for Debilitating Emotions

A protocol to use to evolve your energy through intention and attention, and an audio meditation to help guide you.

Mindfulness Meditation for Chronic Pain

Mindfulness meditation can help us befriend the pain sensations and teach the brain that it doesn’t need to sound the alarm so hard.

Let’s Be Clear: 3 Tips for an Effective Daily Energy Clearing Practice

Managing our energy is an important part of our overall health, and a good energy practice is more than burning sage every once in a while.

4 Energy Clearing Strategies

There are a variety of ways to approach energy clearing.

Treating Phobias with Imagination

The power of our minds can help us overcome fears.

CBD Oil for Insomnia

Can CBD oil help you get some much-needed sleep?

Becoming Shameless

A decade ago, Pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber launched the wildly successful House for All Sinners and Saints to have a church where she “didn’t have to ‘nicen’ myself up.” Now, she’s given that church up to make sex safe from religion.

Rewiring My Brain

“So, what are you doing now?” my well-meaning friends would ask after I had quit my job with no apparent employment or other occupation in sight. The only honest answer I could give was to say, “I’m rewiring my brain.”

3 Basic Supplements for Better Moods

A low mood is more common in the winter months. But it may also signal a gap in your nutrition.

5 Things Narcissists Do on Holidays

​And how to respond safely.

Why Spiritual Practice is Essential in Crazy Times

Your spiritual practice is more essential now than ever before.

3 Herbal Cures for Thanksgiving Troubles

Natural ways to deal with anything this big holiday dishes up.

The Risks of Disrupted Circadian Rhythms

Disrupted circadian rhythms play a bigger role than previously thought in our health.

Guided Meditation: Within the Movement of Fall, Find Your Center

In this guided meditation use a grounding cord to drop into your center.

The Importance of Learning to Breathe

The purpose of alternate-nostril breathing is to balance the left and right sides of the brain, and help you to relax and get centered.

How Horses Can Heal Humans

Therapeutic horseback riding helps veterans with PSTD

Being in the Presence of Change

Twice last week I bumped into friends while in the midst of busy days. These are women who I adore, but haven’t seen in much too long, each of us consumed with the busy-ness of our…

An Energetic Digestive Cleanse

Repressed emotional energy will eventually lead to serious illness and disease. It's time for a cleanse.

Simple Cures for Loneliness

The most recent US data studied by John Cacioppo, a social neuroscientist at the University of Chicago, found that almost a quarter of people today are plagued by frequent loneline…

Natural Stress Relief

It is possible to live a stress-free life with completely natural methods.

5 Ways Not to Be Irritated All the Time

Constantly annoyed? Here are some strategies to overcome anger.

How to Eat for Healthy Gene Expression

How the expression of our genes and the makeup of our micro biome are both fundamentally connected to the foods we choose to eat.

The New American LOVE Revolution

This spiritual renaissance is real and has not stopped. It’s just that it’s growth—and, like all growth, it’s messy.” - Marianne Williamson

Our Community Journal: The Real Life of Life Coaching

On being “an advocate, an activist for the expression of Love in all its forms . . .”

Letting Go When You’re Holding On

How can you support yourself to let go?

February: The Body

February: The Body Challenge

After exploring the stories and resources on this page, consider the ways you can hone your awareness of your body and create new habits for optimal health: celebrate your body with daily affirmations, attend a qigong class, or learn how to layer the groundwork for a healthier diet in The Medicine in Your Kitchen: Introduction to Ayurvedic Cooking.

Share your progress with the hashtag #FebTheBody and tag @spirithealthmag.

Clairsentience and Compassion

A 3-step approach to cultivating compassion and overcoming empathic sensitivity.

The Tao of Chronic Pain

Suffering is Optional. Here’s how to find the teacher inside.

Inside the May/June 2018 Issue

Spirituality & Health's May/June 2018 issue is now available.

The Happiness Track: Naming Your Hauntings

Quite simply, the hauntings of our mind stand between us and everything else.

5 Steps to Solving the Opioid Crisis

By paying attention and anticipating pain (tension, need for energy, and so on), people come to “health consciousness” and are less likely to abuse prescription drugs.

From the Editor: May/June 2018

A note from our editor in chief, Stephen Kiesling.

How a Neighborhood Can Promote Happiness

What surrounds your home is important to wellbeing.

3 Practices for Loving Fully in the Face of Loss

When you face inevitable loss, remember these three things.

7 Reasons for Clearing your Chakras and Aura

Clearing and releasing enables you to live with greater presence.

5 Ways to Listen from the Heart

The secrets to supporting a stressed-out partner.

Audio Meditation: In the Flow of Discomfort

This audio meditation is for those times when there’s discomfort in the body, whether emotional or physical, that doesn’t easily go away.

The Happiness Track: The Flow of Being

As children, we were one with each moment—crying one moment, laughing the next— always intensely present and going along with the flow of being. As a result, we had an …

8 Ways to Help Your Kids Not Hate Themselves

Help kids build and maintain confidence, empathy, joy, and self-compassion.

The Source of Flow & The Battle of the Bottleneck

To protect one source of profound happiness, you need to know how your brain creates it. A brain surgeon explains.

10 Tiny Ways You Can Be Creative Every Day

Have 10 minutes? Here are ways to make time for creativity in your daily life.

5 Ways to Deal With Difficult People

Feeling like you might throttle someone? Try these tactics instead.

Lemony Ginger Winter Immune Tonic

This simple recipe is a formula to kindle the inner fires, promote healthy circulation, and hydrate the tissues.

Is Brain Training Worth the Time?

Cognitive training protects against declines in mental abilities as we age.

Suspending Judgment: Losing Control to Be in Control

How to use mindfulness to let go of preconceived notions.

Acceptance as a Tool for Dealing with Unpleasant Emotions

From the book Rock and Water: The Power of Thought; The Peace of Letting Go

Cure Ruminative Thoughts With Sleep

Getting less than eight hours a night can lead to repetitive, intrusive thoughts.

How Mental Stress Affects Your Heart

Constriction of tiny blood vessels, especially in women, can be deadly.

The Making of a Peacemaker

In his new book Walking Through Anger, Christian Conte describes a clear and simple path to inner and outer-peace using what he calls Yield Theory. Proven in prisons, this practice works—if you choose to live it.

3 Steps to Get Your Writing Back on Track

Make your way through the season of life when writing seems impossible.

Notice Prayer When It Happens

In this week’s The Soul of Therapy, psychologist Kevin Anderson, PhD, stresses that prayer is simply recognizing when joy, gratitude, compassion, or awe happen.

Create Your Own Rituals: Ideas for Weddings, Funerals, and More

“When we, or someone we love, goes through a rite of passage, we need the alchemical blend of jubilation and gravitas.”

Are You Plant Blind?

Just by occasionally focusing on the natural world, you can bring more joy, peace, and wisdom into your life.

The Time for a Spiritual Revolution is Now

Our collective purpose is to discover, surrender, and inspire.

Against Intuition

Does your gut tell you not to trust your gut? Maybe you should listen.

Book Review: The Power of Heart

Reason and intellect are great, but when you feel like giving up, heart matters, according to Dr. Amy Bloch.

Chronic Inflammation: Risk Factors and Signs

“Don’t rely on your doctor to point out possible chronic inflammation to you; it doesn’t share the same visible symptoms as acute inflammation.”

Have I Lived

When our inner critic oversteps its bounds, pause with true reflection and rest in your radiance.

Eat Well, Laugh a Lot

Mark Hyman and Mia Lux are trying to make people healthier—body and soul.

The Healing Gift of Cats

“Both Orange and I ate the same food every day. But I ate it with resentment and he with gratitude.”

Spouses Struggling with Lack of Spiritual Connection

We are delighted to introduce a new online column, The Soul of Therapy, by Kevin Anderson, Ph.D. Dr. Anderson will explore the intersection of the psychological and spiritual in the inevitable struggles that are part of being human.

Imagineering the Soul

Look to innovative thinkers like Walt Disney’s Imagineers to revitalize your spirit.